Alloanthropic Adumbral Mnemalgia
English
Part of Speech: | IPA (Approx.): /ˌæloʊˈænθɹəpɪk əˈdʌmbrəl nɪˈmældʒiə/
Katakana: アロアンソロピック・アダンブラル・ニモウマルジア
“The pain of dwelling on the shadowed memory of an idealized life imagined with another person.”
Definition 1:
A form of emotional suffering that arises from dwelling on the memory of an idealized life with someone who was never yours. It is the ache of recalling a lost future that existed only in outline, imagined yet unrealizable.
Definition 2:
Painful, vague, or shadowed memory of another person.
Johnson O’Connor Style Definition:
Pain from remembering an imagined life with someone you never had.
Example Sentence:
He felt the pull of Alloanthropic Adumbral Mnemalgia whenever he slipped back into the shadowed memory of the life he imagined with her, a future that never belonged to him.
Etymology:
- allo- (ἄλλος): other, another person
- anthropic (ἄνθρωπος): pertaining to a human being
- adumbral (Latin adumbrare): shadowed, existing only in faint outline
- mnem- (μνήμη): memory
- -algia (ἄλγος): pain, suffering
Literal Meaning:
Pain of the shadowed memory connected to the other person.
Related Terms:
- Nostalgia — longing for a lived past
- Oneiroalgia — pain from dreamlike imaginings
- Counterfactual longing — desire for an alternate life path
- Phantalgia — pain from imagined images
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