Thursday Words: Obscure Sorrows
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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name, from The Marginalian
Here's an example:
Here's an example:
SUERZA
n. a feeling of quiet amazement that you exist at all; a sense of gratitude that you were even born in the first place, that you somehow emerged alive and breathing despite all odds, having won an unbroken streak of reproductive lotteries that stretches all the way back to the beginning of life itself.Spanish suerte, luck + fuerza, force. Pronounced “soo-wair-zuh.”