rubatosis
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Presumably rubato + -osis. Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig in 2012 as part of his The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows project.
Noun[edit]
rubatosis (uncountable)
- (neologism) The unsettling awareness of one's own heartbeat
- 2015 September, Gustaf Vonsheilds, Palm Spring Whispers, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 105:
- Amador rocked me slowly in that amniotic tranquility and I started to get sleepy. I could hear the unsettling rubatosis of my beating heart.
- 2016, Asif Anwar, Fainting Pulse: ICU Chronicles, →ISBN, page 113:
- Avis stopped in his tracks and wheeled around, thinking something had gone wrong—a moment of rubatosis.
- 2019, Jonna Wahl, Bloody Bloom, →ISBN:
- My skin brushed up against his soft hand, sending lightning throughout my body and a strong feeling of rubatosis.
Usage notes[edit]
While defined by Koenig as a sensation (“unsettling awareness”), some authors employ the term as a synonym of palpitation – not the sensation but the heartbeat itself.
References[edit]
- Koenig, John (2021) “rubatosis”, in The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 60