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kretaceous on Sept 1, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Random Google Street View

There's a word for this feeling! From Wiktionary:

    sonder (uncountable noun)

        The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it.

O__________O on Sept 1, 2022 [–]

Appears term was invented in the book “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows” in 2012 to create new words for emotional expressions, concepts, etc:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32676647

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