Obscure words

Someone has put them into words!

My personal favorites from this list are satisdiction (definitely from Latin satis=enough and dicere=speak) and aeolist (Greek Aeolus, god of the wind) Satisdiction: to say all that is required. There are only a few recorded references to this word. Aeolist: a pompous person who pretends to have…

Oneirataxia.

Humans are so emotionally complex we feel emotions we can't even describe very well, so all of our complex emotions tend to get lumped into generic categories such as anger or sadness.But indescribable simply won't work for the human race, so we create words which attempt to describe or quantify these feelings, words as complex as the feels.Unsurprisingly many of the most complicated words on the list are in German, since the German language has many longer words made up of a bunch of…

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Sonder is another absolutely gorgeous word created by The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Sonder is a term that describes a complex experience of the human condition, thus it’s rather tricky t…

Here are 10 emotions that you have felt but can never describe.