10 emotions you might feel but can’t explain

Humans have the amazing ability to feel emotions that are so profound and complex that we sometimes have a hard time expressing them to our language and other forms of communication. It can be frustrating when you feel something you can’t fully understand or explain. This is why the brilliant writer John Koening penned and put together the compendium of all the most and indescribable feelings you may not know even experiencing.

I recommend reading all these 10 emotions. It’s always good to know what you’re feeling.

1. Sonder

Sonder is defined as the sudden realization that you can never completely know a person. It’s when you start to understand that everyone around you has their own story that you might never get to know about. You realize that you only get to know as much about a person as they’ll allow you to.

2. Hanker Sore

This is an emotion most of us wouldn’t want to admit to feeling. Hanker Sore refers to the phenomenon of finding someone so attractive that it makes you feel angry at them for some reason. It differs from jealousy in the sense that it’s subtler and more subconscious. When you feel Hanker Sore, you don’t feel explicitly hostile or envious towards the person. But deep down you can’t help feeling upset at their random stroke of luck for winning the genetic lottery.

3. Lachesism

Have you ever felt the sudden desire to have something bad happen to you? For no reason? Well, that feeling is what we call Lachesism. It’s that deep, dark impulse most of us have to be struck by tragedy and come out the other side. It’s born out of our innate desire for challenges and growth. Wich pushes us to test the bounds of our courage and resilience.

4. Ellipsism

Ellipsism, as the feeling that people often misinterpret as curiosity or inquisitiveness. But really it refers to a desire to understand the world and to know what will happen in the future. This is something most scientists, scholars, artists, and inventors can probably relate to. As many of them have a hard time coming into terms with the fact that they might never get to see how the history will turn out. How they will be remembered or what legacy they may leave behind.

5. Mauerbauer Traurigkeit

Mauerbauer Traurigkeit is defined as the sudden feeling to push people away and put your defenses back up. It often happens when we let our insecurities tell us, we’re not good enough. We feel afraid that if other people saw us for who we really were, they reject us.

6. Liberosis

Have you ever wish that you could just stop worrying so much and relax? If so, you’ve already experienced Liberosis. Liberosis is the feeling you get when you’re afraid you’re not living your life to the fullest. It comes from the desire to be more carefree and easygoing.

7. Monachopsis

Monachopsis means feeling out-of-place for some reason. It can even happen when you’re someplace familiar or surrounded by your friends and family. You don’t understand it. You can’t just shake out the feeling that you don’t belong here, or don’t fit in with everyone else. That’s Monachopsis.

8. Onism

Next is Onism, which refers to the awareness of how little of the world you will ever be able to experience. Those of us who love to travel and go on adventures may sometimes feel wistful over the realization that there are still so many peacefully places out there we might never get to see. Onism represents those unfulfilled desires and goals we fear we might never achieve before we die.

9. Nighthawk

This is what you call that feeling you get when you can’t sleep for some reason. Psychologists believe that Nighthawks are recurring thoughts that only come to you late at night. Maybe because you have some unfinished business you need to resolve but haven’t acknowledged yet.

10. Jouska

Finally, Jouska is defined as the feeling of wanting to have a conversation with someone in you’re head. While it may sound somewhat strange. It's something most people have experienced a number of times in their lives. Did you ever want to get something off your chest but just didn’t have the courage to say it? Or is there something you wanted to let someone know but you never got the change to? That’s Jouska. It's a feeling you get when you want to give yourself closure for something that never was resolved in you’re life.