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From Washington, D.C., this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.

I'm Bob Garfield with Mike Volo, and today on the show, those nuanced and very specific feelings you have, and others often do too, for which no English words ever existed to represent them, until basically now. Hey, Mikey. Hey, Bob. How you doing?

Splendid thank you and your own self. I am often frustrated over what I would call my ongoing

lifelong inability to fly. For as long as I can remember, I've had flying dreams,

like many people, not quite Superman racing across the sky. These are more serene than that,

more floating up and down like a hot air balloon, which I've been in, so I know that sensation.

And sometimes when I'm walking down the street, I feel almost upset that I can't just lift off like I do in my dreams.

Now, it turns out that there's a word for that.

Mapio Hansia is defined as, quote, the frustration of being unable to fly, unable to stretch out your arms and vault into the air, having finally shrugged off the burden of your own weight, which you've been carrying your entire life

without a second thought.

Been there, done that, or I suppose I should say, been there and not done that as well.

It is a familiar feeling, and it sounds like something from classical Greek.

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