Citations:liberosis

Noun: "(neologism, rare) the longing to feel a blissful childlike state of indifference and to experience life's joys without being burdened by its cares"

 * 2015, Johnny Close, Eco-Lonely, page 163:
 * 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, Gustaf Vonsheilds, Palm Springs Whispers, page 56:
 * “Any excuse to have a libation in this heat and indulge in the liberosis,” Francesca said joyfully.
 * 2018, Jesús de Rodríguez, She Fears, page 37:
 * Just relax!—I exclaim with a tone that makes her feel liberosis.
 * 2019, Jonna Wahl, Bloody Bloom, unnumbered page:
 * I chewed on my plump bottom lip in liberosis as I chatted away with a stranger online.
 * 2019, Stephen T. Asma & Rami Gabriel, The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition, unnumbered page:
 * An unscientific but intriguing online site, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, details many of these tertiary-level emotions, including the emotion of “liberosis”—a desire to care less about things, as when an adult longs to be a child again.
 * 2020, Utkarsh Garg, "Liberosis", in When the Clock Struck Two: Pouring Myself Into Words, unnumbered page:
 * Perennially
 * grappling with
 * my own psyche
 * to achieve
 * the stage
 * where I am
 * not bothered
 * anymore,
 * drowning in
 * the oceans of
 * liberosis.
 * 2021, Anandi Mehrotra, Her Closet Strangers, unnumbered page:
 * I really did not want to leave her behind and in that ephemeral moment, I wished for Liberosis. I wished that I could care less about things; I was probably never going to meet Izzy or these children again, but in the few weeks that I had spent here, they had really grown on me.
 * 2021, Engin Yurt, "Hermetic Becomings", in From Phenomenon Labyrinths to Midnights of Zugzwangs: Or Missing Apparitions in Yūgen Recordings, page 81:
 * Is empty space white, dark or in absolute colourlessness?
 * A kuebiko and a liberosis calculate against each other now.
 * 2023, Jana Louise Smit, How to Kill an Earworm: And 500+ Other Psychology Facts You Need to Know, page 146:
 * Adults experience liberosis when life's worries make them miss the carefree days of their childhood.
 * Adults experience liberosis when life's worries make them miss the carefree days of their childhood.