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ANEMOIA
Definition of ANEMOIA
noun
Nostalgia for a time or a place one has never known.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig in 2012, whose project, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, aims to come up with new words for emotions that currently lack words. From Ancient Greek ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind”) + -oia, extracted from loanwords like paranoia where -νοια (-noia) refers to a certain state of mind.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ANEMOIA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 119, 16 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 119, 16 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ANEMOIA starts with A and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AAEIMNO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Could you have found ANEMOIA?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 119 - and most players walked straight past it.
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