Citations:liberosis

English citations of liberosis

Noun: "(neologism, rare) the longing to feel a blissful childlike state of indifference and to experience life's joys without being burdened by its cares"

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• 2015, Johnny Close, Eco-Lonely, page 163:

  I was cursed with liberosis, the desire to care less about everything. I am a skid mark on the lingerie of life; the only concern for its presence is to vanish.

• 2015, Gustaf Vonsheilds, Palm Springs Whispers, page 56:

  “Any excuse to have a libation in this heat and indulge in the liberosis,” Francesca said joyfully.

• 2018, Jesús de Rodríguez, She Fears, page 37:

  Just relax!—I exclaim with a tone that makes her feel liberosis.

• 2019, Jonna Wahl, Bloody Bloom, unnumbered page:

  I chewed on my plump bottom lip in liberosis as I chatted away with a stranger online.

• 2019, Stephen T. Asma & Rami Gabriel, The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition, unnumbered page:

  An unscientific but intriguing online site, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, details many of these tertiary-level emotions, including the emotion of “liberosis”—a desire to care less about things, as when an adult longs to be a child again.

• 2020, Utkarsh Garg, "Liberosis", in When the Clock Struck Two: Pouring Myself Into Words, unnumbered page:

  Perennially

  grappling with

  my own psyche

  to achieve

  the stage

  where I am

  not bothered

  anymore,

  […]

  drowning in

  the oceans of

  liberosis.

• 2021, Anandi Mehrotra, Her Closet Strangers, unnumbered page:

  I really did not want to leave her behind and in that ephemeral moment, I wished for Liberosis. I wished that I could care less about things; I was probably never going to meet Izzy or these children again, but in the few weeks that I had spent here, they had really grown on me.

• 2021, Engin Yurt, "Hermetic Becomings", in From Phenomenon Labyrinths to Midnights of Zugzwangs: Or Missing Apparitions in Yūgen Recordings, page 81:

  Is empty space white, dark or in absolute colourlessness?

  A kuebiko and a liberosis calculate against each other now.

• 2023, Jana Louise Smit, How to Kill an Earworm: And 500+ Other Psychology Facts You Need to Know, page 146:

  Adults experience liberosis when life's worries make them miss the carefree days of their childhood.