Finding New Terms For Emotions You Hadn’t Realized You Felt

“Perhaps you’ve experienced the feeling the French sociologist Roger Caillois called ‘ilinx’ – an elated disorientation caused by random acts of destruction, such as kicking over the office recycling bin. … Learning new words for emotions can also bring feelings to life. Discover the definition of a new emotion, and you’ll almost certainly find yourself re-organizing your inner world, seeing vague or amorphous sensations as concrete instances of a recognizable category of experience.”