ART, WEIRD
14 real and made-up words
Tori Balazo ·
- baishchildegraphe: the embarrassment of reading a journal or diary from childhood
- calculanguish: searing frustration and anger at a malfunctioning computer
- chrysalis: the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm
- consternaleugh: a situation in which you forget which lie you told someone
- drogepericulum: a fearful confusion of forgetting you’re high
- jouska: a hypothetical conversation that you compulsive play out in your head
- kenopsia: the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet
- lachesism: the desire to be struck by disaster -- to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire
- mauerbauertraurigkeit: the inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like
- mannekille: the feeling of watching a bug you decided not to kill go free
- mirenphobia: fear of making eye contact with yourself in the mirror
- osseoakhos: the ache of a bone mending itself
- vellichor: the strange wistfulness of used bookshops
- videreavinde: a daydream while playing a game about winning the game’s world championship