Here is a list of 40 words in English that have deep meanings, based on some web sources123:
- Bibliopole: a dealer in books, especially rare or decorative ones.
- Callipygian: having shapely buttocks.
- Sabaism: the worship of stars or spirits in them, especially as practiced in ancient Arabia and Mesopotamia.
- Mundivagant: archaic word for “wandering over the world.”
- Woodnote: a natural and untrained musical note resembling the song of a bird.
- Luminescence: the emission of light by a substance that has not been heated, as in fluorescence and phosphorescence.
- Denouement: the outcome of a complex sequence of events.
- Effervescence: the property of forming bubbles (or an appealingly lively quality).
- Phosphenes: an impression of light that occurs without light entering the eye. It’s usually caused by stimulation of the retina (as by pressure on the eyeball when the lid is closed).
- Audacity: the confidence to say or do what you want, despite difficulties, risks, or the negative attitudes of other people.
- Desiderium: an ardent desire or longing (a feeling of loss or grief for something lost).
- Ataraxia: calmness untroubled by mental or emotional disquiet.
- Somnambulance: walking while asleep.
- Psithurism: the sound of the wind rustling the leaves.
- Lore: traditional knowledge about nature and culture that people get from their parents and other older people, not from books.
- Ardor: an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling or extreme vigor and energy.
- Alchemy: studies about substances through which the generation of gold and silver may be artificially accomplished.
- Caravan: a company of travelers on a journey through a desert or hostile region.
- Macabre: having death as a subject: comprising or including a personalized representation of death.
- Serendipity: the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for.
- Synchronicity: the coincidental occurrence of events and especially psychic phenomena (such as similar thoughts in widely separated persons or a mental image of an unexpected event before it happens). They seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality.
- Sidereal: relating to, or expressing about stars or constellations.
- Ascendant: rising in power or influence.
- Benevolent: kind and generous.
- Bountiful: giving or providing many desired things.
- Bubbly: lively and cheerful.
- Chivalrous: showing respect and courtesy, especially toward women.
- Conscientious: careful and diligent.
- Dazzling: extremely bright or impressive.
- Jubilant: feeling or expressing great joy.
- Ineffable: too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words.
- Insouciance: a casual lack of concern or indifference.
- Quintessential: representing the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class.
- Rapturous: characterized by, feeling, or expressing great pleasure or enthusiasm.
- Sanguine: optimistic or positive, especially in a difficult situation.
- Saturnine: gloomy or sullen.
- Schwellenangst: fear of crossing a threshold to embark on something new.
- Somnambulist: a person who walks in their sleep.
- Sonder: the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.
- Vellichor: the strange wistfulness of used bookstores, which are somehow infused with the passage of time.
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