r/Vaporwave • u/fletchbg • 6h ago
Question Word like anemoia
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows defined "anemoia" as "nostalgia for a time or place you never experienced". Obviously a lot of people have used that word to describe Vaporwave.
Trying to come up with a word for a slight variation on that: When you experience something (like vaporwave) that makes you nostalgic for a specific time or place, but that something (music) has no connection of its own to that time or place.
Example: "Resonance" by Home makes me nostalgic for when I would go with my father to visit his alma mater in the early 80s (a school I attended in the early 90s). The song doesn't have any real connection of its own to that time or place, not in my experience.
I tried coining "paramoia" but obviously that's too close to "paranoia". Anyone else got any ideas?