Rubatosis
//ˌɹuːbɑˈtəʊ.sɪs// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The unsettling awareness of one's own heartbeat neologism, uncountable
"Amador rocked me slowly in that amniotic tranquility and I started to get sleepy. I could hear the unsettling rubatosis of my beating heart."
Example
More examples"Amador rocked me slowly in that amniotic tranquility and I started to get sleepy. I could hear the unsettling rubatosis of my beating heart."
Etymology
Presumably rubato + -osis. Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig in 2012 as part of his Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows project.
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