Anemoiran: A kenochoric gender related to nostalgia for a time you’ve never lived in. For some, it can feel wistful or strange, as though you’re walking through a dream, and may have a deep sense of longing.
Comes from the word anemoia, which means “nostalgia for a time you’ve never lived in.”
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, which coined the term, described anemoia as: “Imagine
stepping through the frame into a sepia-tinted haze, where you could
sit on the side of the road and watch the locals passing by. Who lived
and died before any of us arrived here, who sleep in some of the same
houses we do, who look up at the same moon, who breathe the same air,
feel the same blood in their veins—and live in a completely different
world.“
There may be a wide variety of experiences within this gender, and is intentionally broad for this reason.
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