YOU KNOW THE FEELING?
Hangry, a portmanteau that describes the irritability that arises from hunger, succinctly gets at a very particular human emotion. Shouldn’t we have more of these terms? Here are some clever nominees.
✦ Buralysis: The paralyzing anxiety you feel when confronted with bureaucracy.
✦ Pretedium: The mixture of frustration, ennui, and anxiety that washes over you when you realize you’ve been cornered by a known long-talker.
✦ Cine-void: The guilt that follows browsing Netflix and seeing an “important” film that you know you should watch but choosing
John Wick: 2, a movie you’ll
Chapter convince yourself you’ve never seen.
✦ rembarrassment:
A feeling of humiliation at the memory of an awkward or shameful experience from long ago, often unrelated to current circumstances. ✦ Creditphoria:
The pleasure, denial, delusion, and mania of being in a store you don’t belong in and buying an item you cannot afford.
✦ Premoji: The feeling of searching on your smartphone for an emoji that doesn’t exist. —Thecut.com