Meanings
- neologismrareuncountableThe longing to feel a blissful childlike state of indifference and to experience life's joys without being burdened by its cares.
Adults experience liberosis when life's worries make them miss the carefree days of their childhood.
2023, Jana Louise Smit, How to Kill an Earworm: And 500+ Other Psychology Facts You Need to Know, page 1462 more examples
I was cursed with liberosis, the desire to care less about everything. I am a skid mark on the lingerie of life; the only concern for its presence is to vanish.
2015, Johnny Close, Eco-Lonely, page 163“Any excuse to have a libation in this heat and indulge in the liberosis,” Francesca said joyfully.
2015, Gustaf Vonsheilds, Palm Springs Whispers, page 56
Origin
Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig, creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, from Italian libero (“free”) and the modern English suffix -osis, referencing the libero position in volleyball and its ability to "move at greater liberty than other players."
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