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(Adjective) Definition: The state of being infected by a sense of psycho-emotional existential nausea. A form of severe emotional distress.

Form Examples & Pronunciation: Nosousness, Nosousity, etc.

/nɒˈsɒs/, /nɑˈsɑ s/, /ˈnɒsəs/, or /ˈnɑsəs/
/ˈnɒsəs.nεs/ or /ˈnɑsəs.nεs/
/nɒˈsɒsıti/ or /nɑˈsɑ sıti/

Etymoloᵹy: Derived from the classical Greek root νόσος (nosos), it describes an irreversible departure from mental wholeness. Translationson νόσος Include: Physical Pathology and Affliction, Social and Communal Ruin, Spiritual and Moral Dysfunction, and Psychological Distress.

Englishised into Nosous, instead of straight-up Nosos.
Adjective (Nosous): After staring at the static on the television screen and realizing how insignificant his routine was, he was overcome by a nosous dread that made it impossible to get out of bed.
Adjective (Nosous): Scrolling through twenty years of old social media posts left her feeling deeply nosous, trapped under the weight of an unexplainable existential exhaustion.

Adjective (Nosous): Ever get that nosous feeling where you look at social media and suddenly feel an overwhelming, existential sickness about the direction of humanity?
Noun (Nosousness): The sheer nosousness of modern life hits hardest at 3:00 AM when you suddenly start questioning the purpose of your entire existence.
Noun (Nosousity): He tried to mask his chronic nosousity with humor, but his friends could tell he was drowning in a profound, philosophical sadness.
Nosous by TheStuffGuy_01 July 17, 2026
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Nosfusexed 

1: To be simultaneously nostalgic, confused, and vexed in the lag time between one moving, structured experience and the next.

2: To engage in sexual relations with a vampire.
After returning home from senior year, Jane felt nosfusexed as she sat studying pictures of her college years and considered her current state of unemployment.
Nosfusexed by Simon Dilettante January 9, 2009

Norousal 

When someone is not attracted to someone else;

Brought into play when one person rejects the romantic advances of another, so as to remind the other that attraction (or lack thereof) is a state resulting from complex and immutable socio- psycho- and biochemical phenomena, and not in fact a value judgment on which offense should be taken.
-Hey, would you like to go out sometimes.

-Sorry, it seems like I'm noroused I'm afraid.

-Ok no worries.

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Norousal is the opposite of arousal
Norousal by Tacksomfan October 8, 2010

nosoulosexual

A sexual orientation that represents the sexual attraction to either a male or a female who does not have a soul.
"You like him? He has no soul!"
"I told you I was nosoulosexual!"
nosoulosexual by iwearshoesftw November 24, 2017

NOSfusion 

a) The feeling you get when you press the "NOS" (N2O GAS AKA nitrous oxide) button in your vehicle

b) Pure Euphoria via Nitrous Oxide released into your "car's" engine
"Hey Topher! Last night, for the first time, i felt NOSfusion when i took my ride on a midnight test drive!"
NOSfusion by Topher G. April 2, 2007
NoSus, Nathan.
NoSus by AITBROIMMAHEADOUT November 17, 2020

nososexual 

the sexual desire of contracting diseases, usually STD's/STI's. nososexual people often feel as if this disease is dominating them, similar to the way a sexual partner would.
Don't hook up with Michael, he is nososexual and probably has several STDs right now.
nososexual by maoledong December 29, 2021
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“No way, is that cake?”
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