You must have heard people saying that feelings don’t have any name. We can just feel them but it isn’t difficult to describe them. That’s totally not true. Feelings do have beautiful names. We just need to learn them.
What comes to your mind when you hear the word “Feelings”? Love and hate. It is quite fascinating that there so many beautiful feelings we don’t even know the name of.
Feelings are those beautiful gestures words can’t explain. People find it difficult to express their emotions therefore, these feelings are given names. Now you don’t have to combine different words to describe what you are feeling. These beautiful names of these feelings will do the work.
This is the list of 13 passionately beautiful feelings you didn’t know have a name.
1. Limerence
The state of being infatuated, more than having just a ‘crush’ on another person.
2. Liberosis
The desire to care less about things. To be carefree and to live in the moment.
3. Monachopsis
The subtle but continuous feeling of feeling out of place. When you know you’re not supposed to be where you are.
4. Vellichor
The strange yearning of being in a used bookstore because of that smell…
5. Jouska
The hypothetical conversation you play out in your head. With fictional characters, places and situations.
6. Petrichor
The undeniably beautiful smell of the earth after rain.
7. Hiraeth
It is a longing for one’s homeland, but it’s not mere homesickness. It’s an expression of the bond one feels with one’s home country.
8. Cafune
The act of caressing or tenderly running fingers through a loved one’s hair.
9. Vemodalen
The frustration of photographing something amazing and knowing the fact that 1000s of identical photos like that exist.
10. Paresthesia
That pins and needles feeling you have in your leg or hands after a long duration of it being inactive.
11. Numinous
A personal and powerful feeling of being overwhelmed and really inspired.
12. Sillage
The degree to which a perfume’s fragrance lingers in the air after it’s sprayed on.
13. Acatalepsy
The incomprehensibility of all things. When you experience something and feel that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.
Crazy. Right? Did you ever think these feelings can actually have a name? I’m sure not. But now you know what these feelings are called. So go share it with your friends and family to increase their knowledge too. You may thank us later.
