From fernweh and saudade to noctivagant and resfeber, discover 25 beautiful, strange and obscure words for feelings and experiences you never knew had names.

The English language has approximately 170,000 words currently in use.

And yet somehow there is still no official word for standing in front of an open refrigerator hoping something new will appear.

This is unacceptable.

There are two kinds of people in this world.

People who say, “I don’t know.”

And people who say, “I remain agnostic on the matter.”

They both have absolutely no idea what’s happening.

One just sounds significantly more employable.

Human beings have been making noises at each other for thousands of years, and somehow we still routinely end up saying things like:

“You know that feeling when you want to go somewhere, but not like a vacation, more like you desperately need to be somewhere far away even though you don’t know where?”