Happiness is underrated. It's a feeling everyone enjoys, certainly, and one that we are wont to spend our lives pursuing — but not one that we often think much of when we have it, especially when it's triggered by something small in the fleeting moments that we know will quickly pass, as if we're afraid …
Category: Slavic
Ćutati
Sometimes it seems like the world can't stop talking. In English, we have so many words to describe the ways people speak that we're often taught in school to avoid the word "said" at all costs, in favor of the dozens of more colorful speech tags we have at our disposal. (We're usually later reprimanded …
Toska
No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, …
Verbomania 