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Agnosthesia | The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Anemoia
According to Wiktionary, anemoia is an uncommon neologism that means nostalgia for a time or place that has never been known. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows describes anemoia as "nostalgia for a time you've never known".
cosmos : not just a synonym for universe, but a beautiful universe (cosmetic)
sophistry : rhetorical masters without a compass, from ancient Greece, hucksters and mercenaries; using the dark arts of craft to deceive populations.
philosophy : the communal pursuit of wisdom (philo = friends, sophia = wisdom).
prescient : foresight into the future
“…there’s a huge blind spot in the language of emotion, vast holes in the lexicon that we don’t even know we’re missing. We have…only a rudimentary vocabulary to capture the delectable subtleties of the human experience. Words will never do us justice, but we have to try anyway.”