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Where Do Broken Hearts Go?
Vegas or Omaha?
THE DARK AND MELANCHOLY
WORD LISTS
PONDERING THE PHOBIA - Phobias and Library: Complete. collection of phobias to peruse and ponder and if you need help, check the library for the associated content from my books and self care guides on managing fear and anxiety.
WORD LISTS
- Mournful Medley of Melancholy
- Crazy and Bizarre Thoughts We Have
- Only the Lonely Know Why
- Beautiful Words of Unpleasantry
- Where Do Broken Hearts Go?
- A State of Madness or a State of Mind
- Duality of +/- Emotion
- Are you a Ginormous Grumbletonian?
- It was a Dark and Gloomy Rainy Day
PONDERING THE PHOBIA - Phobias and Library: Complete. collection of phobias to peruse and ponder and if you need help, check the library for the associated content from my books and self care guides on managing fear and anxiety.
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HEARTBROKEN WORDS
“The fact that the word lovesick exists, that the simple absence of a person can make you physically ill, says a great deal about the terrible power of the human heart.” - Beau Taplin
AGHYAAR - Persian for strangers
AGLIOPHOBIA - the fear of being hurt
ALPAS - to become free; to break loose
ANACAMPSEROTE - something that can bring back a lost love
ANAGAPESIS - no longer feeling affection for someone you once loved
ATELOPHOBIA - the fear of not being good enough; an extreme fear of failure
ATHAZAGORAPHOBIA - the fear of being forgotten, ignored or replaced
AUBADE - a love song sung at dawn
AVOIR LE MAL DE QUELQU’UN - French for intensely missing someone so much it literally makes you sick; “someonesickness” on the model of “seasickness.”
CAROM - to strike and rebound
CHARMOLYPI - “joy-making sorrow,” a mixed feeling of happiness and sorrow
CINGULOMANIA - a strong desire to hold someone in your arms
CRUCIATUS - Latin for torture; severe pain
ECCEDENTESIAST - someone who hides great sorrow and pain behind a smile
DECATHECT - to withdraw your feelings of attachment to someone in anticipation of future loss
DESIDERIUM - an ardent longing for something lost
DOZAKH - a place of torment one believes they are in when separated from their love; a hell
Expectation is the root of all heartache. William Shakespeare
ELEGIAC - expressing sadness, especially for someone who died or something lost or that doesn’t exist
FANAA - destruction of the self; “destroyed in love”
FAARAMOSH - Persian for forgotten
FINIFUGAL - hating endings; someone who seeks to prolong the final moments of a story or relationship
FRIABLE - easily broken into pieces; reduced to nothing
FURQAT - Persian for separation from your beloved
HABROMANIA - delusions of happiness
HICRAN - a deep feeling of sorrow or grief to be separated from the one you love
ILUNGA - someone who is ready to forgive any abuse the first time, to tolerate it the second time, but never a third time
INCIPIENCE - foolishness, lack of wisdom. Like when you confuse a lesson for a soulmate.
INDURATIZE - to make own’s heart hardened or resistant to someone’s pleas or advances or to the idea of love
KALOPSIA - the illusion that things are more beautiful than they are
KATZENJAMMER - anguish or distress
LACUNA - a blank space, a missing part of your life
LA DOULEUR EXQUISE - the heart-wrenching pain of wanting the affection of someone unattainable
LITOST - a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery
LUGUBRIOUS - mournful or dismal
MAGOA - a heartbreaking feeling that leaves is visible in gestures and facial expressions
MAEROR - Latin for grief or mourning
MAMIHLAPINATAPAI - a look shared by two people, both wishing the other would initiate something they both desire but which neither one begins
MAUDLIN - foolishly sentimental
NADIR - the lowest point of heartbreaking despair
OBLIVESCENCE - the process of forgetting
PISTANTHROPHOBIA - fear of trusting anybody based on painful remembrances of past relationships gone bad
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness Robert Frost
PHILOPHOBIA - phile means love and phobia means fear so philophobia is the fear of love (or falling into in love)
RAZBLIUTO - the sentimental feeling of about someone you once loved but no longer do
RECUMBENTIBUS - the final blow; the final winning argument
RETICEO - Latin for keep silence; things better left unsaid
RETOUR À LA CASE DÉPART - French for back to square one
SARANG - love; wishing to be with someone until death
SAUDADE - nostalgia; the love that remains; a desire to be near someone distant
SHIKASTA - Persian for broken
SILLAGE - the scent of perfume left in the air, the trail left in water, the impression made in a space after someone has gone
SPHALLOLALIA - flirtation that goes nowhere
TACENDA - things better left unsaid
TAGHAFUL - Persian for negligence or indifference
TAINTED LOVE - love that you have for someone that is so deep and should last forever but it can’t for some unfair, complicated reason
TARANTISM - overcoming melancholy by the uncontrollable need to dance
THANTOPHOBIA- the fear of losing someone you love
TORPE - a man who is desperately in love with a woman but who can’t admit his feelings or even approach her
TOSKA - a dull ache of the soul, a sick lining, a spiritual anguish
TRISTFUL - deeply romantically melancholic
You don’t know how deeply entwined you are with
someone until you try to walk away from them.
VEMOD - a tender sadness or pensive melancholy that you feel when an emotionally significant relationship is over
VERKLEMPT - completely overwhelmed with emotion
WELTSCHMERZ- “world-pain,” the depression you feel when the world doesn’t reflect what you think it should be
WISTFUL - full of sad yearning or desire
XENIZATION - to exist as a stranger
YA’ABURNEE - “you bury me,” the hope you will die before your love because you can’t live with them
AGLIOPHOBIA - the fear of being hurt
ALPAS - to become free; to break loose
ANACAMPSEROTE - something that can bring back a lost love
ANAGAPESIS - no longer feeling affection for someone you once loved
ATELOPHOBIA - the fear of not being good enough; an extreme fear of failure
ATHAZAGORAPHOBIA - the fear of being forgotten, ignored or replaced
AUBADE - a love song sung at dawn
AVOIR LE MAL DE QUELQU’UN - French for intensely missing someone so much it literally makes you sick; “someonesickness” on the model of “seasickness.”
CAROM - to strike and rebound
CHARMOLYPI - “joy-making sorrow,” a mixed feeling of happiness and sorrow
CINGULOMANIA - a strong desire to hold someone in your arms
CRUCIATUS - Latin for torture; severe pain
ECCEDENTESIAST - someone who hides great sorrow and pain behind a smile
DECATHECT - to withdraw your feelings of attachment to someone in anticipation of future loss
DESIDERIUM - an ardent longing for something lost
DOZAKH - a place of torment one believes they are in when separated from their love; a hell
Expectation is the root of all heartache. William Shakespeare
ELEGIAC - expressing sadness, especially for someone who died or something lost or that doesn’t exist
FANAA - destruction of the self; “destroyed in love”
FAARAMOSH - Persian for forgotten
FINIFUGAL - hating endings; someone who seeks to prolong the final moments of a story or relationship
FRIABLE - easily broken into pieces; reduced to nothing
FURQAT - Persian for separation from your beloved
HABROMANIA - delusions of happiness
HICRAN - a deep feeling of sorrow or grief to be separated from the one you love
ILUNGA - someone who is ready to forgive any abuse the first time, to tolerate it the second time, but never a third time
INCIPIENCE - foolishness, lack of wisdom. Like when you confuse a lesson for a soulmate.
INDURATIZE - to make own’s heart hardened or resistant to someone’s pleas or advances or to the idea of love
KALOPSIA - the illusion that things are more beautiful than they are
KATZENJAMMER - anguish or distress
LACUNA - a blank space, a missing part of your life
LA DOULEUR EXQUISE - the heart-wrenching pain of wanting the affection of someone unattainable
LITOST - a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery
LUGUBRIOUS - mournful or dismal
MAGOA - a heartbreaking feeling that leaves is visible in gestures and facial expressions
MAEROR - Latin for grief or mourning
MAMIHLAPINATAPAI - a look shared by two people, both wishing the other would initiate something they both desire but which neither one begins
MAUDLIN - foolishly sentimental
NADIR - the lowest point of heartbreaking despair
OBLIVESCENCE - the process of forgetting
PISTANTHROPHOBIA - fear of trusting anybody based on painful remembrances of past relationships gone bad
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness Robert Frost
PHILOPHOBIA - phile means love and phobia means fear so philophobia is the fear of love (or falling into in love)
RAZBLIUTO - the sentimental feeling of about someone you once loved but no longer do
RECUMBENTIBUS - the final blow; the final winning argument
RETICEO - Latin for keep silence; things better left unsaid
RETOUR À LA CASE DÉPART - French for back to square one
SARANG - love; wishing to be with someone until death
SAUDADE - nostalgia; the love that remains; a desire to be near someone distant
SHIKASTA - Persian for broken
SILLAGE - the scent of perfume left in the air, the trail left in water, the impression made in a space after someone has gone
SPHALLOLALIA - flirtation that goes nowhere
TACENDA - things better left unsaid
TAGHAFUL - Persian for negligence or indifference
TAINTED LOVE - love that you have for someone that is so deep and should last forever but it can’t for some unfair, complicated reason
TARANTISM - overcoming melancholy by the uncontrollable need to dance
THANTOPHOBIA- the fear of losing someone you love
TORPE - a man who is desperately in love with a woman but who can’t admit his feelings or even approach her
TOSKA - a dull ache of the soul, a sick lining, a spiritual anguish
TRISTFUL - deeply romantically melancholic
You don’t know how deeply entwined you are with
someone until you try to walk away from them.
VEMOD - a tender sadness or pensive melancholy that you feel when an emotionally significant relationship is over
VERKLEMPT - completely overwhelmed with emotion
WELTSCHMERZ- “world-pain,” the depression you feel when the world doesn’t reflect what you think it should be
WISTFUL - full of sad yearning or desire
XENIZATION - to exist as a stranger
YA’ABURNEE - “you bury me,” the hope you will die before your love because you can’t live with them
If you know the taste of heartbreak, then these words say it all.
THE DARK AND MELANCHOLY
WORD LISTS
PONDERING THE PHOBIA - Phobias and Library
WORD LISTS
- Mournful Medley of Melancholy
- Crazy and Bizarre Thoughts We Have
- Only the Lonely Know Why
- Beautiful Words of Unpleasantry
- Where Do Broken Hearts Go?
- A State of Madness or a State of Mind
- Duality of +/- Emotion
- Are you a Ginormous Grumbletonian?
- It was a Dark and Gloomy Rainy Day
PONDERING THE PHOBIA - Phobias and Library
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Collection of Vocabulary Books, Sites and Resources
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Words are also posted on twitter under the hashtags #beautifulwords and shared on pinterest boards
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Never underestimate the strength and power of a beautiful vocabulary
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