rubatosis

noun /ˌɹuːbɑˈtəʊ.sɪs/

1. The unsettling awareness of one's own heartbeat

   uncountable

   Amador rocked me slowly in that amniotic tranquility and I started to get sleepy. I could hear the unsettling rubatosis of my beating heart.

Where it comes from

Presumably rubato + -osis. Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig in 2012 as part of his Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows project.

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

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