Originally a page from my hobby blog
Some of these words I discovered from Dictionary.com’s Word of the Day. Some are untranslateable words from other languages or created by The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows or other sources. Nonetheless, these words I feel a personal connection with, or just find pretty. I hope you enjoy.
Aesthete: Someone with deep sensitivity to the beauty of art or nature.
Apricity: The warmth of summer in winter.
Ataraxia: A state of freedom from emotional disturbance and anxiety; tranquility.
Dendrophile: A lover of the woods or trees. Is not necessarily a sexual thing, as the Wikipedia link I provided suggests.
Fernweh: An untranslatable noun from German, meaning an ache for distant places; the craving for travel.
Fiddle-footed: An adjective meaning restlessly wandering.
Friluftsliv: A Norwegian noun meaning living in tune with nature.
Fronescence: The process of putting forth leaves.
Inscape: The unique inner nature of a person or object as shown in a work of art, especially a poem.
Krummholz: Stunted windblown trees growing near the tree line on mountains.
Kawaakari: A Japanese word, meaning the glow or gleam of a river in darkness.
Landloper: Someone who wanders, could be a vagrant or an adventurer.
Lotus-Eater: While originally referring to a member of a people Odysseus comes across on his mythical journey, it can also mean someone who lives life with a dreamy ease. In short, a daydreamer.
Meraki: An untranslateable verb or adverb from Greek, meaning to do something “with passion, with absolute devotion, with undivided attention” and it’s applied tasks, usually creative or artistic ones.
Moonglade: The bright reflection of the moon on an expanse of water.
Nelipot: A person who walks barefoot.
Nemophilist: A haunter of woods; one who loves the forest and its beauty and solitude.
Occhiolism: an awareness at the smallness of your perspective.
Penetralia: The innermost parts or recesses of a place of thing, or the most private or secret things.
Petrichor: the earthy scent produced by rain falling on dry soil.
Psithurism: the sound of wind in the trees or rustling of leaves.
Resfeber: This is one of many words I discovered through Mystify Music playlists. It’s a Swedish word representing the anxiety for a journey undertaken, a travel bug.
Serein: Find rain falling after sunset from a sky in which no clouds are visible.
Shivelight: a word created by poet Gerard Manley Hopkins for the lances of sunshine that pierce the canopy of the woods.
Smultröstalle: A Swedish word translating to “place of wild strawberries.” It is a special place discovered, treasured, returned to for solace and relaxation; a personal idyll free from stress or sadness.
Solivagant: A solitary wanderer.
Trouvaille: A word I discovered through a Mystify Music playlist , it is a lucky find. No really, that’s what the words means.
Vagility: the ability of an organism to more around freely.
Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookstores, which are somehow infused with the passage of time—filled with thousands of old books you’ll never have time to read, each of which is itself locked in its own era, bound and dated and papered over like an old room the author abandoned years ago, a hidden annex littered with thoughts left just as they were on the day they were captured.
Wanderweg: The original definition I discovered of this word was the name of a playlist by Mystify Music called Wanderweg. Their definition is as follows: “an adventurous trail which meanders through the wilderness where one can see the beauty and the charm of the land.” By googling the word however, I discovered it’s simply a German word that means “trail.”