I Like Learning New Words Stories of Experiences (Page 3)

n. The moment in Greek tragedy when the hero learns eveything he knows is wrong.  For example, the moment in Oedipus Rexx when Oedipus discovers he has killed his father and married his mother.

kenopsia:

n. the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that’s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet - a school hallway in the evening, an unlit office on a weekend, vacant fairgrounds - an emotional afterimage...

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Flashover:

n. the moment a conversation becomes real and alive, which occurs when a spark of trust shorts out the delicate circuits you keep insulated under layers of irony, momentarily grounding the static emotional charge you’ve...

slipcast:

n. the default expression that your face automatically reverts to when idle - amused, melancholic, pissed off - which occurs when a strong emotion gets buried and forgotten in the psychological laundry of everyday life...

mal de coucou:

n. a phenomenon in which you have an active social life but very few close friends - people who you can trust, who you can be yourself with, who can help flush out the weird psychological toxins that tend to accumulate...

Trumspringa:

n. the temptation to step off your career track and become a shepherd in the mountains, following your flock between pastures with a sheepdog and a rifle, watching storms at dusk from the doorway of a small cabin, just the...

Xeno:

n. the smallest measurable unit of human connection, typically exchanged between passing strangers - a flirtatious glance, a sympathetic nod, a shared laugh about some odd coincidence - moments that are fleeting and random but...

Mauerbauertraurigkeit:

n. the inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like - as if all your social taste buds suddenly went numb, leaving you unable to distinguish cheap politeness from the taste of...

degrassé

adj. entranced and unsettled by the vastness of the universe, experienced in a jolt of recognition that the night sky is not just a wallpaper but a deeply foreign ocean whose currents are steadily carrying off all other...

gnossienne:

n. a moment of awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private and mysterious inner life, and somewhere in the hallways of their personality is a door locked from the inside, a stairway leading to a wing...

Monachopsis:

n. the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place, as maladapted to your surroundings as a seal on a beach - lumbering, clumsy, easily distracted, huddled in the company of other misfits, unable to recognize the...

n. Alexithymia is a relatively new term which means the inability to express feelings with words.

Sonder

n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own - populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness - an epic story that continues invisibly...

I found this one in elementary school randomly looking through the dictionary. Me and my friend found it amusing.A hobbledehoy is a clumsy or awkward youth.You will not find a better description of the type than in Anthony Trollope’s...

I knew it was the title of a movie but....It’s a fine example of a rhyming doublet. It started life in the seventeenth century as a way to describe reckless or careless persons, often young men.

Defined : Obtained by devious means

No, this is not what you're most likely thinking. Once you know the definition of this word, however, the other word will become obvious.Jaculation is the act of tossing or throwing something. You could certainly have some fun with this...

A friend who shares my phobia told me this word today.coulrophobia: (n.) an extreme, irrational or abnormal fear of clowns
Used in a sentence: My coulrophobia kicked into high gear when I saw the clown at the party, a wicked gleam in...

Even if you have never heard this word, it is what publishers of certain magazines and most of the internet rely on to make money.The definition is: sexual stimulation from pictures or statues.While it is routine for (certain) pictures...