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ABSQUATULATE - To leave without saying goodbye or without permission.

ALEXITHYMIA - inability to identify and express or describe one’s feelings. Alexithymia is a fairly recent word, showing up in English in the mid-1970s. It is formed by the prefix a- (meaning “not” or “without”) with the Greek ‘lexis’ (“speech”) and -thymia, (a noun combining form meaning “condition or mind and will”).

ALL-OVERISH - vaguely uneasy. Sometimes we have need of a word that can describe the middle ground between well and unwell, and for those occasions we have the word all-overish. Although this word may also be applied to feelings of apprehension, it is its role of serving to so specifically denote a non-specific feeling that makes it useful.

BEGUILE - To influence by trickery or flattery or to mislead or delude.

CALLOSITY - lack of feeling or capacity for emotion. This may be used in either a literal sense (“abnormal hardness and thickness (as of the skin)”), or in a figurative one.

CHICANERY - To use subterfuge to trick or deceive.

COMPATHY - shared feeling (as of joy or sorrow) It appears to be primarily used in a clinical setting, in the field of mental health.

COMPUNCTIOUS - feeling remorse or regret

CONTUMACIOUS - Perverse, stubborn, obstinate, rebellious or willfully disobedient.

DESIDERIUM - An ardent longing or desire, often for something lost.

DYSTOPIAN - hellish society characterized by human misery and problems including brutality, oppression, disease, hunger, etc.

ECCEDENTESIAST - A person who fakes a smile. It is often used to describe people who have to smile for the camera no matter how they are feeling inside.

DÉPIT (French) - Describes the feeling of itching irritation or fury (on a small scale) that happens when you're disappointed by something, like getting rejected in love or not getting the job.

ESTRANGE - To break contact, remove or keep at a distance from someone. To remove affection or attention from someone, or to behave in an unfriendly or hostile manner towards someone you previously liked or loved.

HI FUN KOU GAI (Japanese) - righteous, miserable anger, a frustration and despair over a situation that seems terrible but cannot be changed.

HIRAETH - Welsh word meaning a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return; a home which maybe never was. Nostalgia, yearning and grief, for the lost places of your past or a sense of home.

HYDRA - Derives from the water serpent in Classical Mythology of the same name, whose heads regrew as they were cut off. This word means a persistent, many-sided problem that is difficult to solve.

IMBROGLIO - A complicated or difficult situation. An embarrassing situation or a misunderstanding of a complicated or bitter nature between people.

INEXORABLE - Relentless, unyielding, unmoveable, unalterable and not to be persuaded.

KNELL - The sound made by a bell rung slowly, especially for a death or funeral. Also a mournful sound in general, or a warning sound.

KOEV HALEV (Hebrew) - This refers to a certain kind of empathy. When you can't watch people suffering or miserable, particularly if you love them, because you feel it so strongly yourself — to the point of causing you serious physical pain.

KUIDAORE - A Japanese word literally meaning to ruin oneself by extravagance in food.

LACUNA - A gap or missing part, for example, a missing section of a manuscript or a gap in an argument.

LANGUID - Lacking in spirit or vigour, listless, indifferent.

LASSITUDE - Fatigue and lack of energy. A weariness of body or mind.

LEBENSMÜDE (German) translates as "life-tired" and either means you do such risky things that you clearly don't care for your own safety, or that you've entered a deep, physical state of not-caring.

LEUCOCHOLY - a state of feeling that accompanies preoccupation with trivial and insipid diversions. Leucocholy is the creation of Thomas Gray, an 18th century poet and man of letters. The earliest record (and one of the few times it has been used at all) of this word occurs in a letter written by Gray in 1742.

MONO NO AWARE (Japanese) - describes the particular sadness or sensitivity regarding the passage of time and the transience of life. To experience this sadness is to be affected by the fleeting nature of specific things and become wistful or reflective about the fact that everything must end.

MOROSE - Sullen and ill-humored or pessimistic.

MUTTERSEELINALLEIN (German) - Loneliness, but much harder-hitting than that: it's meant to evoke abandonment by everybody you love, and literally means that your mother's soul has left you.

NATSUKASHII (Japanese) - identifies the feeling of evocative longing for something past: a nostalgia that's also very sad, as it reminds you that what you're remembering will never come again.

PETTIFOG - To bicker about unimportant issues. To be petty.

PUSILLANIMOUSSTAR - Cowardly, faint-hearted, fearful or timid. Lacking in courage.

SATURNINE - This word comes from the Latin Saturnus and refers to the planet Saturn which was supposed to have a gloomy influence over people. It means having a gloomy or surly disposition.

SCHWELLENANGST - from the German ‘ Schwelle ‘ meaning “threshold” + ‘Angst’ meaning “anxiety.” A fear or aversion to entering a place or crossing a threshold to embark on something new.

TACITURN - inclined to silence, not conversing readily, unsociable.

TANTE (Chinese) - nervousness or perpetual anxiety, a state of worry where your senses are so heightened that you can feel your own heartbeat.

TARTLE - this is a Scottish word which means to hesitate while introducing someone because you have forgotten their name.

TOSKA - a Russian word that can be roughly translated as sadness or melancholia.

UNREQUITED - not returned, as in unrequited love.

VISCERAL - dealing with crude or elemental emotions.

WELTSCHMERZ (German) - kind of ennui (a French word meaning listlessness or severe boredom, incidentally) that translates as "world-pain". It essentially means the depression that comes from believing your problems are caused by the world itself and its unfairness and cruelty.

WINTERCEARIG (Old English) - literally means "winter-care," but it isn't about Seasonal Affective Disorder; it's more meant to be a metaphor for the strength of your sadness, which is as strong and never-ending as the bitter cold of midwinter.

WOEBEGONE - exhibiting great sorrow, or misery.

XINTENG (Chinese) - heartache, the particularly kind of sadness and pain that comes from witnessing and sharing the pain of people you love. You can translate it as "feeling sorry," but it's more physical and empathetic than that.
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