Emotion

Melancholy

Words expressing deep sadness and sorrow.

15 words

Hiraeth

heer-eyeth

n. Homesickness for a place you can't return to or that never existed.

Kummerspeck

koom-er-shpeck

n. Weight gained from emotional overeating.

Nunchi

noon-chee

n. The art of reading others' moods and intentions.

Lacuna

lah koo-nuh

n. A twinge of sadness that there's no frontier left.

Adomania

ad-uh-mey-nee-uh

n. The sense that the future is arriving ahead of schedule.

Ambedo

am-bee-doh

n. A momentary trance of emotional clarity.

Amentalio

ah-men-tal-yoh

n. The sadness of forgetting sense memories of the departed.

Ellipsism

ih-lip-siz-uhm

n. The sadness of never knowing how history will unfold.

Kerisl

kair-ahyl

n. The sorrow of imagining the wealth of knowledge forever lost to history.

Catoptric Tristesse

kuh-top-trik tris-tes

n. The sadness of never truly knowing what others think of you.

Aulasy

awi-uh-see

n. The sadness of being unable to convey a powerful memory to those who were not present.

Buldoo

unknown

n. Red pus with certain conditions.

Clonmult

unknown

n. Yellow ooze near certain secretions.

Corriedoo

unknown

n. Moment of false recognition in passageway.

Glasgow

unknown

n. Sadness among happy younger people.

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