Nostalgia & Wonder
Welcome to the nostalgia & wonder section of the Vowlenu Lexicon.
You will find words for nostalgic and wondrous feelings, desires, concepts, and characteristics that expand language for the world and your expression.
Other words are related to wistfulness, mystery, curiosity, desire, yearning, and certain aesthetics like Vaporwave.
Abudecay
Meaning & Definition: Abudecay (n.) – The phenomenon in which a friendship whittles away because neither person wants to text or call first after not having spoken in a while.
Pronounciation: /ah-bood-ick-ay/
Alemurity
Meaning & Definition: Alemurity (n.) – One’s desire for reconnecting with their childhood self while still somehow holding onto the idea of what it is to be a responsible adult.
Pronounciation: /al-ehm-yur-ity/
Altermapid
Meaning & Definition: Altermapid (n.) – The nagging feeling that one lives in the wrong state or country.
Pronounciation: /alt-er-map-id/
Eramnesia
Meaning & Definition: Eramnesia (n.) – The realization of being born in the wrong time period and wishing to live in another.
Pronounciation: /eram-nee-shuh/
Incaurast
Meaning & Definition: Incaurast (n.) – The special mystique possessed by caves or temples that were once inhabited by an ancient civilization(s).
Pronounciation: /ink-ar-ahst/
Isoframst
Meaning & Definition: Isoframst (n.) – The nostalgic desire to relive a moment from a photograph or video.
Pronounciation: /i-so-frahm-st/
Lamissa Scholarist
Meaning & Definition: Lamissa Scholarist (n.) – The specific wistfulness a student feels as he or she desperately tries to hold on to the quickly fleeting college experience during their final semester or quarter of undergrad.
Pronounciation: /la-mee-suh/ /sko-lor-eest/
Livilence
Meaning & Definition: Livilence (n.) – The mix of eerie calmness and nostalgia experienced when returning to the home one grew up in long after moving away.
Pronounciation: /liv-il-ens/
Lunamovas
Meaning & Definition: Lunamovas (n.) – The deep-down yearning to live on the Moon.
Pronounciation: /loon-uh-moh-vahs/
Novalunosis
Meaning & Definition: Novalunosis (n.) – The state of relaxation and wonderment while gazing upon the stars at night.
Pronounciation: /nova-loon-ohsis/
Oatriance
Meaning & Definition: Oatriance (n.) – the sudden craving for cereal or another grain-based food that was regularly eaten during one’s childhood.
Pronounciation: /oh-tree-ans/
Plaxondry
Meaning & Definition: Plaxondry (n.) – The mix of introspective nostalgia, sadness, and calmness felt when listening to vaporwave and its related genres.
Pronounciation: /plags-uhn-dree/
Stonelapsis
Meaning & Definition: Stonelapsis (n.) – The desire to return to a more technologically limited way of life or time in the past.
Pronounciation: /stohn-lap-sis/
Teresaurum
Meaning & Definition: Teresaurum (n.) – The innate desire to be physically surrounded by gold.
Pronounciation: /tehr-es-ar-um/
Verseluft
Meaning & Definition: Verseluft (n.) – the desire to live in or experience a fantasy universe for a planned amount of time.
Pronounciation: /vers-el-uhft/