Nature

n. The road-like reflection of the moon on water.... more

n. Staying up late and having an enjoyable time with friends.... more

n. The time needed to eat a banana.... more

n. Sunlight filtering through tree leaves.... more

n. Silent understanding between two people, both unwilling to act.... more

n. The twinkle in your eye when meeting someone new.... more

adj. The color of a faded, dying leaf.... more

v. Searching for something in water using only your feet.... more

n. The euphoria of falling in love.... more

n. Buying books and leaving them unread.... more

n. A random image that becomes lodged deep in your brain and grows into a wild and impractical vision.... more

adj. Feeling lonely in a crowd; unable to communicate with anonymous faces.... more

adj. Feeling small and alone in a bustling city.... more

n. A long-overdue argument that shakes up a relationship, burning wildly through your issues.... more

n. An odd interval of blankness felt after a significant event but before the emotional response.... more

n. A glint of goodness you notice in someone unexpectedly.... more

n. The weird hollowness of trying to imagine the distant future.... more

n. The sudden realization of being over someone.... more

v. Compulsively turning away from works of art that are frustratingly good.... more

n. The otherworldly aura of seeing recordings of a friend in early childhood.... more

n. The longing to be free of responsibility.... more

n. The tipping point when your brain becomes overwhelmed with tasks, leaving you immobilized.... more

n. Something you've misunderstood for years without knowing it.... more

n. A hollow place in your psyche that can never be filled; a bottomless hunger for more.... more

n. A state of exhaustion inspired by senseless tragedies and acts of violence, which force you to abruptly revise your expectations of what can happen in this world.... more

n. The atmosphere of camaraderie when people are stuck together in a certain place.... more

n. A feeling of queasiness while offering advice, realizing the advice may not apply to the recipient's situation.... more

n. A tiny jolt of awareness that someday you will die, leaving you with a profound realization of life's impermanence.... more

n. Curiosity about the real people behind internet usernames and a technique in digital graphics to smooth the appearance of jagged pixels in low-resolution images.... more

adj. Intimidated by the awareness of being in the present moment.... more

n. The dread of finally pursuing a lifelong dream and facing the test of your true abilities.... more

n. The fear of being shaped by circumstances and stimuli rather than by conscious choice.... more

n. A sense memory drained of emotion due to excessive contemplation.... more

n. The half-forlorn, half-escapist ache of a train whistle howling in the distance at night.... more

n. A relationship or friendship that lingers in your thoughts, despite seeming to have ended.... more

n. The phenomenon of seeing a stranger when looking at your own reflection in the mirror.... more

n. The longing to wander off your career track in pursuit of a simple life.... more

n. A condition of scanning faces in a crowd for a specific person who would have no reason to be there.... more

n. The act of deliberately refusing to learn scientific explanations to preserve the magic.... more

n. The off-putting awareness of how deeply your culture's norms are ingrained in your psyche.... more

adj. Feeling ashamed after revealing too much of yourself to someone.... more

n. The fear that originality is no longer possible.... more

n. The scattering of memories that your brain is actively forgetting.... more

adj. Feeling quietly overjoyed to be the only one awake in the middle of the night.... more

n. The delirium of having spent all day in an aesthetic frame of mind that infuses the world with an aura of meaning.... more

n. The awareness of how fundamentally limited your senses are.... more

n. The feeling of returning from a trip and quickly forgetting the experience.... more

n. The frustration of never being able to truly understand another person's pain.... more

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

adj. Feeling the haunting solitude of extremely remote places.... more

n. The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.... more

n. The malaise that results from having unlimited access to something, which only seems to drain away its value.... more

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

adj. Feeling grateful to be stranded in a place where you can't do much, temporarily alleviating the burden of constant activity.... more

n. The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.... more

n. Poor signature when formally identifying oneself.... more

n. Father's talk about facts of life.... more

n. A sneeze that tickles but doesn't come.... more

n. Soft British Rail sandwich.... more

n. Sharp prong on a tree stump.... more

n archaic. Raucous ballad after a successful joke.... more

n. Best spot to watch undressing across the street.... more

n. Gum knob found unexpectedly.... more

pl n. Unused foreign coins on dressing tables.... more

n. Fake seal on pretentious whisky.... more

n archaic. Throwing excrement from window.... more

n. Dried dung indicating hikers.... more

n. Wind before underground train.... more

n. Someone else's more interesting newspaper.... more

n. Kids hiding to steal from Santa.... more

n. Tiny bit cut from ticket.... more

n. Street dance of avoiding each other.... more

n. Increase in zoo takings from lovers.... more

n. Realisation missed train left.... more

n. Bus cushion indicating breakdown.... more

n Scots. Long tarpaulin for fishermen or publicans.... more

n. Loud but undisturbing burglar alarm.... more

n. Minimum distance between Underground trains.... more