There is a fellow named John Koenig who has endeavored in the past decade to color in the edges of the English dictionary. The goal of his Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows to capture feelings, sensations, and situations that lack a word. Often this is accomplished, unsurprisingly, by leaning on other languages, as English has always done. In this vein, the word anemoia was born, from Ancient Greek u1f04νεμος (ánemos for “wind”) and νu03ccος (nóos for “mind”); it is a word for feeling nostalgia for a time or thing that never existed or that the individual has never experienced.
Anemoia
