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Beautiful new words to describe obscure emotions

John Koenig · TED

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About

John Koenig loves finding words that express our unarticulated feelings -- like "lachesism," the hunger for disaster, and "sonder," the realization that everyone else's lives are as complex and unknowable as our own. Here, he meditates on the meaning we assign to words and how these meanings latch onto us.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDxBerkeley
Speaker
John Koenig
Year
2016
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics, Literature and writing, Languages and linguistics
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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