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
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
How true! BWAAAAPP
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 :)
Great! Yes, this was just the most accessible copy I found.
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
