Abience: (n) the strong urge to avoid someone or something
Cynefin: (n) (Welsh) a place where a person or an animal feels it ought to live and belong; it is where nature around you feels right and welcoming
Dysania: (n) the state of finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning.
Foxing: (n) the yellow-brown tinge seen in the pages of old books
Fudgel: (v) pretending to work when you’re not actually doing anything at all
Gluggavcour: (n) (Icelandic): “window-weather” Weather best enjoyed only behind a window.
Hiraeth: (n) a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return; the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past.
Nemophilist: (n) one who is fond of forest or forest scenery; a haunter of the woods.
Nyctophilia: (n) love of darkness or night, finding relaxation or comfort in the darkness
Petrichor: (n) the smell of earth after rain
Psithurism: (n) the sound of the wind through trees
Querencia: (n) a place where one feels safe, a place from which one’s strength of character is drawn.
Resfeber: (n) the tangled feelings of fear and excitement before a journey begins
Saorsa: (n) (Scottish) freedom, liberty
Selcouth: (adj) unfamiliar, rare, strange, and yet marvelous
Werifesteria: (v) (Old English): to wander longingly through the forest in search of mystery
Whelve: (verb) to bury something deep; to hide
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