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ambedo

noun /æmˈbi.doʊ/

  1. A kind of melancholic trance in which a person becomes completely absorbed in vivid sensory details.

    uncountable

    Later that day, E.K. was sitting on the concrete porch that was the face of his house, basking in ambedo—he became vividly entranced by the seemingly meaningless things around him.

Where it comes from

From albedo, a physics term that describes the proportion of light reflected by a substance (from the Latin term for whiteness). Ambedo refers to the tendency both to reflect and to absorb. Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig in 2011, whose project, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, aims to come up with new words for emotions that currently lack words.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry ambedo (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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