I was curious whether there were more words like "petrichor" whose meanings tend to evoke an obscure or oddly specific feeling, and the rabbit hole led me to discover https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com

It's a wonderful collection of fake definitions which are just plausible enough to pause and think about, sprinkled with cultural references. I so very much want some of them to be real - and who's to say they can't be?
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