sonder

发音

US /ˈsɑndɚ/
UK /ˈsɒndə/

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it.

    不可数

    We need to have a "sonder" moment, where we realize that we aren't the only ones with feelings, dreams, regrets and hopes.

词源

Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig in 2012, whose project, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, aims to come up with new words for emotions that currently lack names. Inspired by German sonder- (“special”) and French sonder (“to probe”).

来源：wiktionary