Cause sometimes you just need to read between the lines and misinterpret them

I have the geekiest habit whenever I read a book of always having a pencil and dictionary at hand to note my favourite passages and look up all those magical unknown words that enrich my universe! So when I came across this collection of rare and obscure words I couldn't help but share it! My favourite one is

Tarantism - The urge to overcome melancholy by dancing.

It comes from tarantella, this peculiar, hypnotic, tamborello-based music from the South of Italy (mostly Salento), often sang in a weird Italian/Greek dialect. This music is all about a girl that gets bit by a spider and to prevent death from tarantism and remove all the poison from her body she has to dance incessantly for 3 days and 3 nights in a state of ecstasy to the rhythm of tarantella.

A Collection of Rare and Obscure Words

Cheiloproclitic - Being attracted to someone's lips.

Quidnunc - One who always has to know what is going on.

Ultracrepidarian - Of one who speaks or offers opinions on matters beyond their knowledge.

Apodyopis - The act of mentally undressing someone.

Gymnophoria - The sensation that someone is mentally undressing you.

Tarantism - The urge to overcome melancholy by dancing.

Autolatry - The worship of one’s self.

Cagamosis - An unhappy marriage.

Gargalesthesia - The sensation caused my tickling.

Capernoited - Slightly intoxicated or tipsy.

Lalochezia - The use of abusive language to relieve stress or ease pain.

Cataglottism - Kissing with tongue.

Basorexia - An overwhelming desire to kiss.

Brontide - The low rumbling of distant thunder.

Grapholagnia - The urge to stare at obscene pictures.

Agelast - A person who never laughs.

Wanweird - An unhappy fate.

Dystopia - Am imaginary place of total misery. A metaphor for hell.

Petrichor - The smell of dry rain on the ground.

Anagapesis - The feeling when one no longer loves someone they once did.

Malapert - Clever in manners of speech.

Duende - Unusual power to attract or charm.

Concilliabule - A secret meeting of people who are hatching a plot.

Strikhedonia - The pleasure of being able to say “to hell with it”.

Lygerastia - The condition of one who is only amorous when the lights are out.

Ayurnamat - The philosophy that there is no point in worrying about events that cannot be changed.

Sphallolalia - Flirtatious talk that leads no where.

Baisemain - A kiss on the hand.

Druxy - Something which looks good on the outside, but is actually rotten inside.

Mamihlapinatapei - The look between two people in which each loves the other but is too afraid to make the first move

Yet sometimes there is beauty in being absolutely incapable of defining a word!

Photo I took after spending endless hours in a bookshop on Sunday

I never really understood the word 'loneliness'. As

far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the

sky and the ocean, and with nature.

~   Björk

A song to mark the beginning of autumn

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