emotional words

http://I haven't seen a list like this for a while, and I still love the "alchemy of language"! For example, I just heard the idea of breath-laughter as a term for the feeling of freedom from a wonderful interview with the author Jason Reynolds from the ever-marvelous Krista Tippet:

"So you take something like freedom. What could be a synonym for freedom? And I made up the word breathlaughter, because there’s something about the idea, for me, that when I think of breath, I think of life, but I also think of, it doesn’t stop. So if you exhale — we’re dealing with this right now, by the way, when it comes to the pandemic. That’s the thing, is that if you exhale, what comes out of your mouth spreads and spreads and spreads — it goes and goes and goes and goes — and that’s something to think about. It’s something to think about, what happens when we breathe out or breathe in. It’s also interesting to think about that we’re breathing in, and then breathing out, which means it’s a constant recycling of energy. What an amazing thing to think about, just constant recycling of energy. And so what if laughter could also be recycled in that way? What if it could just go? That is freedom, to me. If it could just go and go and go and go and go, if it could be the ripple in the water. To me, that feels free. Now, physically free, it’s a different conversation. But that feels like freedom, to me, so yeah."

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