Vellichor

📖 Meaning of Vellichor

Vellichor is the strange, wistful nostalgia ✨ you feel when you are inside a second-hand bookstore 📚🌿. It’s the bittersweet sense of history, memories, and untold stories within old books.

💡 Examples

• Walking through the dusty aisles of the old shop 🏬, she felt vellichor wash over her 🌌.
• Vellichor is the quiet magic ✨ of knowing every book 📖 has been loved by someone before you 💭.

🌸 Origin

Coined by John Koenig in The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows 🌍. It describes emotions that previously had no name.