kenopsia
noun
The eerie, unsettling atmosphere of a place that is usually busy but is now abandoned.
My school, visited years later on a holiday weekend. The hallways exactly as I remembered. No one there.
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A word found you
sonder
noun
The profound realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.
Sitting on the tube at rush hour, watching faces. Everyone going somewhere that matters to them. I felt very small and very connected at once.
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A word stops you in a book.
Someone names a feeling you have carried for years.
You write it down. It vanishes by morning.
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