monachopsis

== English == === Etymology === Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig, creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, from Ancient Greek μοναχός (monakhós, “single, solitary”) + ὄψις (ópsis, “view, sight”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌmɒnəˈkɒpsɪs/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˌmɑnəˈkɑpsɪs/ Rhymes: -ɒpsɪs === Noun === monachopsis (uncountable) (neologism, rare) The persistent sense that one is out of place or otherwise does not belong. 2020, Sharon Ee Ling Quah, Transnational Divorce: Understanding Intimacies and Inequalities from Singapore, unnumbered page: Not being able to settle down and living on the edge send these women into monachopsis where the persistent feeling of being unbelonged and out-of-place looms over them constantly. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:monachopsis. === References ===