The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a web series that defines newly invented words for strangely powerful emotions. Written, edited, and narrated by John Koenig. New episodes are published every other Sunday, on TestTube and YouTube.
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It's hard not to look at the ground as you walk. To set your sights low, and keep the world spinning, and try to stay grounded wherever you are. But every so often you remember to look up, and imag...
THE DICTIONARY OF OBSCURE SORROWS is a web-series about creating our own meaning. Each episode explores newly invented words for strangely powerful emotions, so we can better define what it feels l...
It’s the kind of basic human vulnerability that we’d all find familiar, but is still somehow surprising when we notice it in others. It’s an open question why we have such public confidence, and su...
yù yī - 玉衣 n. the desire to see with fresh eyes, and feel things just as intensely as you did when you were younger—before expectations, before memory, before words.
ambedo - n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details-raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirlin...