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Pronunciation: miss-TALL-jee-uh

Noun

The feeling of nostalgia for a period, place, or experience that was unpleasant or miserable while you were actually living through it.

Mistolgia occurs when you clearly remember that the experience was miserable and do not falsely remember it as better than it was, yet still feel nostalgia or longing for that time.

A blend of misery + nostalgia.

Unlike rose-tinted nostalgia, mistolgia does not make the past seem better than it really was. The misery remains part of the memory; you simply miss that time despite it.
“Those years were miserable and I definitely wouldn’t relive them, but I still get mistolgia thinking about them.”

“I hated that place when I was there, but somehow I feel mistolgia whenever I think about it.”

“Looking through those old photos gave me a weird sense of mistolgia.”

afterbarassment

Pronunciation: æftərˈbærəsmənt
Approx: AF\-ter\-BAIR\-uhs\-ment*

Noun

The delayed feeling of embarrassment that hits when you remember something awkward you previously said or did, especially when it didn’t seem embarrassing at the time.

A blend of after + embarrassment, describing that sudden “why the hell did I say/do that?” feeling that shows up minutes, hours, or even years later.

Unlike ordinary embarrassment, afterbarassment specifically happens in retrospect.
Usage

> “I didn’t think anything of it yesterday, but the afterbarassment is hitting me now.”

> “I woke up with terrible afterbarassment from that conversation.”

> “The afterbarassment always hits when I’m trying to sleep.”

> “I thought the joke was funny at the time. Three hours later, pure afterbarassment.”

> “Remembering what I said gave me immediate afterbarassment.”