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sonder (SON-der) - n., the profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it.
A strong hit to solipsism. Coined in 2012 by U.S. writer John Koenig in his blog The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, where he tries to come up with names for emotions that currently lack words -- this one was inspired by German sonder-, special and French sonder, to probe.
---L.
A strong hit to solipsism. Coined in 2012 by U.S. writer John Koenig in his blog The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, where he tries to come up with names for emotions that currently lack words -- this one was inspired by German sonder-, special and French sonder, to probe.
---L.
