Most Beautiful Words

Marvin
2 min readOct 4, 2018

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Once watched a documentary Life in a day, a beautiful word jump into my mind:

mamihlapinatapai: you know when mamihlapinatapai has just happened. It is that look across the table when two people are sharing an unspoken but private moment. When each knows the other understands and is in agreement with what is being expressed. An expressive and meaningful silence.

There should be many other beautiful words exist, so I search the internet and collect some here:

pâro: the feeling that no matter what you do is always somehow wrong — that any attempt to make your way comfortably through the world will only end up crossing some invisible taboo — as if there’s some obvious way forward that everybody else can see but you, each of them leaning back in their chair and calling out helpfully, colder, colder, colder.

onism: the frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time, which is like standing in front of the departures screen at an airport, flickering over with strange place names like other people’s passwords, each representing one more thing you’ll never get to see before you die — and all because, as the arrow on the map helpfully points out, you are here.

petrichor: A pleasant, distinctive smell frequently accompanying the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather in certain regions.

hiraeth: a homesickness for a home you can’t return to, or that never was; the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past. Hiraeth is a Welsh word which means ‘nostalgia’, or, more commonly, ‘homesickness’. Many Welsh people claim ‘hiraeth’ is a word which cannot be translated, meaning more than solely “missing something” or “missing home.”

More words would be expanded if I have the chance

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