gloomies

 

gloomies pl (plural only)

1. (informal) Preceded by the: gloom, despondency.

Alexithymia

 Alexithymia (/əˌlɛksɪˈθaɪmiə/ ə-LEK-sih-THY-mee-ə), also called emotional blindness, is a neuropsychological phenomenon characterized by significant challenges in recognizing, expressing, and describing one's own emotions.

shrugless

 shrugless

without shrugs

perplexity

 

perplexity (countable and uncountable, plural perplexities)

1. The state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused.
2. Something that perplexes.

cwtch

 cwtch

a loving cuddle (= an act of holding someone in your arms), especially one that makes someone feel very happy and safe: 

dispassionate

 

dispassionate (comparative more dispassionate, superlative most dispassionate)

1. not showing, and not affected by, emotion, bias, or prejudice

discompose

 

discompose (third-person singular simple present discomposes, present participle discomposing, simple past and past participle discomposed)

1. (transitive) To destroy the composure of; to disturb or agitate.
2. (transitive) To disarrange, or throw into a state of disorder.

stresslaxing

 

highwrought

 

highwrought (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Highly excited; overwrought; worked up.

exultant

 

exultant

filled with or expressing great joy or triumph : jubilant

tressilate 

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

• To be suddenly agitated; be a-quiver.

 

trepidancy

trepidancy ‎(uncountable)
(rare) Trembling caused by fear or nervous agitation.

knit one's brows

knit one's brows

1. (idiomatic) To scowl, indicating anger, worry, or puzzlement.

rictus

Etymology

From Latin rictus, participle of ringor (“open the mouth wide”)

Noun

rictus (plural rictuses)

1. A bird's gaping mouth
2. Any open-mouthed expression

   'His face was a rictus of sheer delight.

Quotations

• 1990 - Voivod, Nothingface

  Valves plugs pumps to erase/ rictus from my face.

• 1993 – Wolfenstein 3D, Episode 3, Level 9, after defeating Hitler

  The absolute incarnation of evil, Adolf Hitler, lies at your feet in a pool of his own blood. His wrinkled, crimson-splattered visage still strains, a jagged-toothed rictus trying to cry out. Insane even in death. Your lips pinched in bitter victory, you kick his head off his remains and spit on his corpse.

• 2001 — Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, p 56

  It squinted at her through the hated light, its brow a rictus of pain and fear.

• 2008 — Sean Williams, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, p 81

  The apprentice watched his Master, pain twisting his features into a rictus.

Derived terms

• rictal

Saudade

Saudade (European Portuguese: [sɐwˈðaðɨ], Brazilian Portuguese: [sawˈdadi] or [sawˈdadʒi], Galician: [sawˈðaðe]; plural saudades) is a Portuguese and Galician word that has no direct translation in English. It describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic or deeply melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves. Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing will never return. A stronger form of saudade may be felt towards people and things whose whereabouts are unknown, such as a lost lover, or a family member who has gone missing.
Saudade was once described as "the love that remains" after someone is gone. Saudade is the recollection of feelings, experiences, places or events that once brought excitement, pleasure, well-being, which now triggers the senses and makes one live again. It can be described as an emptiness, like someone (e.g., one's children, parents, sibling, grandparents, friends, pets) or something (e.g., places, things one used to do in childhood, or other activities performed in the past) that should be there in a particular moment is missing, and the individual feels this absence. It brings sad and happy feelings all together, sadness for missing and happiness for having experienced the feeling.
In Portuguese, "Tenho saudades tuas" (European Portuguese) or "Tenho saudades de você" (Brazilian Portuguese), translates as "I have saudade of you" meaning "I miss you", but carries a much stronger tone. In fact, one can have saudade of someone whom one is with, but have some feeling of loss towards the past or the future.
In Brazil, the day of saudade is officially celebrated on January 30.

Saudade (1899), by Almeida Júnior

contrition

contrition

1. The state of being contrite; sincere penitence or remorse.
2. The act of grinding or rubbing to powder; attrition; friction; rubbing.

Dysthymia

Dysthymia (also known as neurotic depression, is a mood disorder consisting of chronic depression, with less severe but longer lasting symptoms than major depressive disorder. The concept was coined by Dr Robert Spitzer (an editor of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III)) as a replacement for the term "depressive personality" in the late 1970s.

According to the DSM's definition of dysthymia, it is a serious state of chronic depression, which persists for at least 2 years; it is less acute and severe than major depressive disorder. As dysthymia is a chronic disorder, sufferers may experience symptoms for many years before it is diagnosed, if diagnosis occurs at all. As a result, they may believe that depression is a part of their character, so they may not even discuss their symptoms with doctors, family members, or friends.

Apoplexy

Apoplexy is a medical term, which can be used to describe 'bleeding' in a cerebrovascular accident. However, without further specification it is rather outdated, and is today rather used for specific conditions, such as pituitary apoplexy and ovarian apoplexy. It can be used non-medically to mean a state of extreme rage or excitement. The word derives from the Greek word apoplēxia (ἀποπληξία).

élan

1. spirit; zeal; ardor

botheration

The act of bothering or the state of being bothered.

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