Thantophobia
noun
The phobia of losing someone you love.
Clinomania
noun
Excessive desire to stay in bed.
Nyctophilia
noun
Love of darkness or night. Finding relaxation or comfort in the darkness.
Catharsis
noun
The purging or release of emotional tensions, especially through kinds of art or music.
Coddiwomple
verb
To travel in a purposeful manner towards a vague destination.
Acatalepsy
noun
The impossibility of comprehending the universe
Fabulist
noun
A liar. A person who invents elaborate and dishonest stories.
Resferber
noun
The restless race of the traveller's heart before the journey begins, when anxiety and anticipation are tangled together; a 'travel fever' that can manifest as an illness.
Oneirataxia
noun
The inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality
Alexithymia
noun
An inability to describe emotions in a verbal manner.
Phosphenes
noun
The stars and colors you see when you rub your eyes.
Pisanthrophobia
noun
Fear of trusting people due to past experiences with relationships gone bad.
Aeipathy
noun
An enduring and consuming passion.
Werifesteria
verb
To wander longingly through the forrest in search of mystery
Bibliophile
noun
A lover of books; someone who finds joy and peace of mind while holding a quality book
Tacenda
noun
Things better left unsaid; matters to be passed over in silence.
Destinesia
noun
when you get to where you were intending to go, but forget why you were going there in the first place.
Pluviophile
noun
a lover of rain; someone who finds joy and peace of mind during rainy days.
Absquatulate
verb
To leave abruptly
DERIVATIVES
absquatulation |noun|
ORIGIN
mid 19th cent.: blend, simulating a Latin form, of abscond, squattle‘depart,’ and perambulate.
Philology
noun
The branch of knowledge that deals with the structure, historical development, and relationships of a language or languages
*literary or classical scholarship.
DERIVATIVES
Philologian |noun|
Philological |adjective|
Philologically |adverb|
Philologist |noun|
ORIGIN
Late Middle English (in the greek sense): current usage (late 17th cent.) from French Philologie, via Latin from Greek Philologia 'love of learning'