JULY NIBJ: Anemoia: Feeling nostalgic for a time you never knew
Raphael Barta
I’m not a good person to play Scrabble or BananaGrams with: I make up words all the time.
I’m not alone in this neologism practice; I recently encountered a cool expression: “anemoia.” Anemoia is the feeling of nostalgia for a time you have never personally experienced. It was made up by John Koenig in “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows” to describe a unique form of nostalgia for a past that one has not lived through.
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