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youshouldknow·You Should Knowbybridgeenjoyer

YSK: Many of your feelings of the modern age are probably described here

https://ia803206.us.archive.org/26/items/the-dictionary-of-obscure-sorrows/The%20Dictionary%20of%20Obscure%20Sorrows.pdf

Never have I felt so understood. I am so glad/sad I know of this now.

Excerpt:

adomania

n. the sense that the future is arriving ahead of schedule, that all those years with fantastical names like '2013' are bursting from their hypothetical cages into the arena of the present, furiously bucking the grip of your expectations while you lean and slip in your saddle, one hand reaching for reins, the other waving up high like a schoolkid who finally knows the answer to the question

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ambedo

n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—which leads to a dawning awareness of the haunting fragility of life, a mood whose only known cure is the vuvuzela.

That last sentence lol

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

You should also know that the original author invented them, that's the reason why they are obscure.

At least the few I checked resulted in:

(X) was coined by Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows creator John Koenig in 2012.[1][2]

E.g. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chrysalism

Fun read though :)

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the future is arriving ahead of schedule, that all those years with fantastical names like '2013' are bursting from their hypothetical cages into the arena of the present, furiously bucking the grip of your expectations while you lean and slip in your saddle, one hand reaching for reins

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