The blog will pick a word of the week, to share & explore the selected word. Here’s an expression for the word – emotion. Defined as a strong feeling deriving from one’s circumstances, moods, experiences, expectations or relationships. An instinctive or intuitive feeling as distinguished from reasoning or knowledge. The word ’emotion’ was coined in the 1800s by Thomas Brown. “The best & the most beautiful things in our world must be felt with the heart” – Helen Keller. Our emotions make us human, the driving force of our life.
Read The Book of Human Emotions. A thoughtful encyclopaedia of human emotions, both broad & outrageously specific, from throughout history & around our world. How do we feel today? Is our heart fluttering in anticipation? Feeling a bit miffed? In this unique book, we travel across the world & through time, learning how different cultures have articulated the human experience of emotions, picking up some fascinating new knowledge about ourselves along the way. From the familiar (love) to the foreign (zal), each entertaining alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections & astonishing facts behind our emotional lives.
Whether we’re in search of the perfect word to sum up that cozy feeling that we get from being indoors on a cold winter’s night, surrounded by friends & good food (what the Dutch call gezelligheid) or wondering how nostalgia evolved from a fatal illness to enjoyable self indulgence, Tiffany Watt Smith draws on history, science, literature, art & culture to find the best answers. Curious about what nginyiwarrarringu means?
