Sonder Definition

noun

The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passed in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it.

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Origin of Sonder

  • Coined in 2012 by John Koenig, whose project, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows , aims to come up with new words for emotions that currently lack words. Inspired by German SONDER sonder- (“special") and French SONDER sonder (“to probe").

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