vellichor

发音

UK /ˈvɛl.əˌkɔː/
US /ˈvɛl.əˌkɔɹ/

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The pensive nostalgia and temporality of used bookstores; the feeling evoked by the scent of old books or paper.

    不可数

    It seemed that nobody else was in the shop, so I wandered around, both intimidated and entranced by the sense of vellichor as I traced my fingers along the leather spines of books beyond my time.

词源

Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig in 2013, creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, as a blend of vellum (“parchment”) and ichor. Compare petrichor.

来源：wiktionary