83 ➳ THE SIGNS AS UNUSUAL WORDS AND THEIR MEANINGS

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Aries: Phosphenes - the stars and colors/colours you see when you rub your eyes

Taurus: Sonder - the realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own

Gemini: Stillage - the scent that lingers in the air, the trail left in water, the impression made in space after something or someone has been and gone; the trace of someone's perfume

Cancer: Latibule - a hiding place, a place of safety and comfort

Leo: Alharaca - an extraordinary emotional reaction to a small issue

Virgo: Basorexia - the overwhelming desire to kiss

Libra: Vorfreude - the joyful, intense anticipation that comes from imagining likeable futures

Scorpio: Athazagoraphobia - the fear of forgetting, being forgotten or ignored, or being replaced

Sagittarius: Nemophilist - one who is fond of forests and forest scenery, a haunter of the woods

Capricorn: Hiraeth - a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return; the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost place of your past

Aquarius: Mauerbauertraurigkeit - the inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like

Pisces: Oneirataxia - the inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality

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A/N: Some of these words are no longer used.

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Originally from xx-astrology via Tumblr



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