Thoroughly Depressing Word of the Day: Ambedo

Ambedo (noun): A kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake.*

* All entries obtained from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows