Etymograph

English

exulansis

Exulansis may come from Latin exulāns ‘exiling’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexulāns‘exiling’uncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2019exulansis

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexulāns‘exiling’uncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2019exulansis

Earliest quotation: 2019, Sara Beam, Emily Dial-Driver: “I am constantly struck by overwhelming feelings of exulansis—the…”

Formed from exulāns ‘exiling’ + -sis

The story

Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig in 2015, creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, from Latin exulāns (‘exiling; exile, wanderer’) + -sis (suffix forming nouns of condition).uncertain The source flags this step as uncertain.

Today it means

noun Resignation to stop talking about an experience, because others cannot relate to it.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin exulāns / exulansis