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sonder

The origin and history of sonder.

Etymology

A modern coinage from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, a project by the writer John Koenig that invents words for unnamed feelings. It is not an inherited English word, though it echoes French 'sonder', to probe or sound out.

Origin: English

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