Definitions For Sonder

Noun

SONDER (uncountable) (neologism) The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passed in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it.

Etymology

Coined in 2012 by John Koenig, whose project, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, aims to come up with new words for emotions that currently lack words.Maggie Powers, "", The Heights (Boston College), Volume 95, Number 44, 13 November 2014, page B7"", The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Inspired by {{etyl, de, en}} sonder-, , special and {{etyl, fr, en}} sonder, , to probe."", The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Official Facebook

Anagrams

Doners, Drones, RDS-EON, Rodens, doners, drones, nerdos, redons, renods, snored, sorned

Is Sonder a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
7
Words with Friends
8

The word Sonder is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends

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