# Beautiful new words to describe obscure emotions

- 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](https://www.ted.com/talks/john_koenig_beautiful_new_words_to_describe_obscure_emotions)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [Beautiful new words to describe obscure emotions](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/john_koenig_beautiful_new_words_to_describe_obscure_emotions/bf36632e3927), 8 min (TED's player)