This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at WM chapter.
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Whether you’re a lover of words or just need to spruce up your story, here’s a list of 20 nouns that you never knew you existed:
- Abience- (n.) the strong urge to avoid someone or something
- Akrasia- (n.) a lack of self-control
- Alexithymia- (n.) the inability to describe emotions verbally
- Apodyopsis- (n.) the act of mentally undressing someone
- Clinomania- (n.) the excessive desire to stay in bed
- Frisson- (n.) a shiver of pleasure
- Forelsket- (n.) the euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love
- Kalon- (n.) beauty thus us more than skin-deep
- Latibule- (n.) a place of safety and comfort
- Lethologica- (n.) when you can’t think of the word for something
- Noceur- (n.) one who stays up late
- Nyctophilia- (n.) the love of darkness or night
- Oneirataxia- (n.) the inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality
- Petrichor- (n.) the scent of rain on dry earth
- Phosphenes- (n.) the stars and colors you see when you rub your eyes
- Psithurism- (n.) the sound of wind through the trees; rustling leaves
- Querencia- (n.) the place where you are your most authentic self
- Quiddity- (n.) the essence of something
- Thalasssophile- (n.) a lover of the sea
- Zemblanity- (n.) the inevitable discovery of what we would rather not know