{"id":18257,"date":"2020-07-04T16:50:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T23:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18257"},"modified":"2020-07-05T15:37:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T22:37:45","slug":"kenopsia-and-other-obscure-sorrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2020\/07\/04\/kenopsia-and-other-obscure-sorrows\/","title":{"rendered":"kenopsia and other obscure sorrows"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com\/\">Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows<\/a> \u201cis a compendium of invented words written by John Koenig. Each original definition aims to fill a hole in the language\u2014to give a name to emotions we all might experience but don\u2019t yet have a word for.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com\/post\/27720773573\/kenopsia\">kenopsia<\/a> is \u201cthe eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that\u2019s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet\u2014a school hallway in the evening, an unlit office on a weekend, vacant fairgrounds\u2014an emotional afterimage that makes it seem not just empty but hyper-empty, with a total population in the negative, who are so conspicuously absent they glow like neon signs.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Apparently there are or were plans for a book version from Simon & Schuster, though the announcement of that came out a couple years ago and the book doesn\u2019t seem to be published yet. And there\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dictionaryofobscuresorrows\/\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>There\u2019s also a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCDetdM5XDZD1xrQHDPgEg5w\">YouTube channel<\/a>, where Koenig publishes a video for each word. For example, I very much like this 3-minute video from 2017 about the phrase <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cxOuG6zQo_0\">moment of tangency<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cxOuG6zQo_0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18265,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18257\/revisions\/18265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}