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A New Word: Amoransia

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amoransia – n. the melodramatic thrill of unrequited love; the longing to pine for someone you can never have, wallowing in devotion to some impossible person who could give your life meaning by their very absence.

Another young person’s word (in general), having amoranssia after watching some sort of media or seeing a picture, reading a story, and imaging how different your life would be with someone famous in it.

There was a point in the very early 90s, just after uni, when I found out Janet Jackson was single, and I was living in Southern CA. I thought what would happen if I happened to bump into her, start a conversation, and maybe a romance. It was a fleeting few days where I could have thought of possibilities, though certainly no amoransia as I wasn’t wallowing at all.

Just fantasizing.

From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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