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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows : ウィキペディア英語版 | The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows ''The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows'' is a website and YouTube channel created by John Koenig that focuses on creating a dictionary involving neologisms for emotions and feelings that do not have a descriptive term. The dictionary includes word entries on the website with paragraph descriptions and videos on YouTube for individual words. Each neologism, while completely created by Koenig, are based on his research on etymologies and meanings of used prefixes, suffixes, and word roots. The terms are often based on "feelings of existentialism" and are meant to "fill a hole in the language", often from reader contributions of specific emotions. Some videos involve a large number of photographs, such as the video for ''Vemödalen'', which uses an "almost exhausting—yet seamless—fusion of 465 similar photos from different photographers". Other videos are more personal, such as ''Avenoir'',which involves a "collage of his own home movies to piece together an exploration of life’s linearity". The popularity of the website and web series began to grow in June of 2015 after a list of twenty-three words from the dictionary began to be shared on multiple social media sites. ==Notable words==
Several of the neologisms presented in ''The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows'', especially those that have an accompanying video, have received attention and interest. The term ''Vemödalen'' focuses on the lack of creativity within photography due to the existence of similar photographs having been taken in the past. However, the video also focuses on how it is "inevitable that the “same” image will be captured by different individuals" while it is also correct that "just because some things seem similar, their uniqueness is not annulled". Using a quote from Walt Whitman, the video points out that something being unique will always be based on adding to what came before and that every photo ever made is being added to the story of photographs that all people are collaborating on. The term ''Sonder'' has been noted as well for its relation to other people, its definition meaning "the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own". ''Sonder'' has also been appropriated by various companies for use as the name of a bike brand and the title of a video game.
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