River: Word of the day

[mdlbear]

This is a word (from an SF/fantasy serial novel in progress) that is obviously needed:

Hauneth

You are missing an incredibly important word for an emotion I know you have,...

That feeling you have when you leave something undone that you know you shouldn’t, and the longer you put it off, the harder it becomes to face, and the worse the feeling of guilt and shame becomes, until it feeds on itself? We call that Hauneth.

-- M.C.A. Hogarth in Kherishdar's Exception | Episode 38

Comments

[gingicat]

That is indeed an excellent word.

[dreamshark]

I wonder if that is actually a universal human emotion or one that is specific to what we seem to be calling "First World Societies" these days. I'm not familiar with the SFF series it is from, but I'm willing to bet that the author of that book is "First World."

I've got a name for it*

[thnidu]

I've got a name for it*

Procrastinundation is the state in which (you feel as if) the things you have kept putting off for days, weeks, months, and years all come due at the same time, and each one depends on all the others being done before it.

* Since posting this comment I see that it's not the meaning you're using. But it's related, and a large (sigh) part of my life.

Re: I've got a name for it*

[mdlbear]

Yeah; that too. After I've been procrastinundated for a while I start to get hauneth.