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edge.org/response-detai totally agree we need more words for happiness/pleasure and ways of things being nice

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because words like "sublime" lose their strength after the 12th last.fm comment in a row

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where are the adjectives for these: * wide-eyed with wonder * vicarious happiness * being transfixed by something sparkling/flowing/floating

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* melancholy but colorful instead of black * sugary hysteric hyperbliss * the feeling evoked by things fitting together

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* feeling weightless (that after relief) * that paradoxical mix of fright and comfort of psychedelic trips * the feeling of scabs going off

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one german word which doesn't have a good translation (see its root word)

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squick-but-relief of a popped zit sun-and-cold-air-on-your-face (being suffused in perception) happiness that tightens one's throat

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also a good list qualiacomputing.com/2015/06/09/sta (via twitter.com/gwern/status/8)

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honorable mention: verve, rapture, satori

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good replies to this thread, including twitter.com/literalbanana/ which got cut off

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@allgebrah possibly deeper reasons why badness is overlexicalized compared to goodness - goodreads.com/quotes/360044- / seekingbalance.com.au/wp-content/upl

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