sonder

Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig in 2012, whose project, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, aims to come up with new words for emotions that currently lack words.^[1][2] Inspired by German sonder- (“special”) and French sonder (“to probe”).^[3][4]

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑndɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɒndə/
• Rhymes: -ɒndə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: son‧der

sonder (uncountable)

1. (neologism) The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it.
   • 2012 December, John Buysse, “On 2nd thought, we do have linked lives”, in The Daily Illini, volume 142, number 68,5, University of Illinois, page 4A:

     I had a sonder, a realization that the random girl sitting next to me inside of Starbucks might have a fantastic life or she might be dealing with a very ill family member.

   • 2013, Annie Cohen, "A Deeper Understanding", Panorama (Ladue Horton Watkins High School, St. Louis, Missouri), Volume 62, Issue 3, 14 October 2013, page 14:

     We need to have a "sonder" moment, where we realize that we aren't the only ones with feelings, dreams, regrets and hopes.

   • 2015, Emily Neiman, Sonder: Clara's Story‎^[3], iUniverse, →ISBN:

     I knew the feeling of sonder my whole life. […] Every time I stopped what I was doing and just watched people, this feeling of breathlessness would wash over me.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:sonder.

• Doners, Drones, RDS-EON, Rodens, doners, drones, nerdos, redons, renods, snored, sorned

From Dutch zonder, from Middle Dutch sonder, from Old Dutch sunder, from Proto-Germanic *sundraz. Cognate with English sunder.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔn.dər/

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sonder

1. without

sonder c pl

1. plural indefinite of sonde

sonder or sondér

1. imperative of sondere

Inherited from Middle French sonder, from Old French sonder (“to plumb”), from sonde (“sounding line”), from Old English sund- (“sounding”), as in sundġierd (“sounding-rod”), sundlīne (“sounding-line, lead”), sundrāp (“sounding-rope, lead”), from Old English sund (“ocean, sea”), from Proto-West Germanic *sund, from Proto-Germanic *sundą (“a swim, body of water, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *swem(bʰ)- (“to be unsteady, swim”). Cognate with Old Norse sund (“swimming; strait, sound”). More at sound.

• IPA^(key): /sɔ̃.de/

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sonder

1. (transitive) to probe (test with a probe)
2. (transitive) to probe (test the depth of something)
   1. to sound (use sound waves to establish the depth)
3. (transitive) to probe (look carefully around)
4. (transitive) to probe (ask someone many questions, in order to find something out)
5. (meteorology) to survey and take measurements using a weather balloon
6. to survey (carry out a survey or poll)
7. (intransitive) to dive down

• sondage
• sonde
• sondé

• → German: sondieren
  • → Russian: зонди́ровать (zondírovatʹ)

• “sonder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• endors, rondes

From Middle High German sonder, sunder, from Old High German suntar, from Proto-West Germanic *sundr, from Proto-Germanic *sundraz (“isolated, particular, alone”), from Proto-Indo-European *snter-, *seni-, *senu-, *san- (“apart, without, for oneself”). Cognate to English sunder (“separate, different”), Latin sine (“without”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɔndɐ/

• Audio:

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sonder [with accusative]

1. (archaic) without; except; not including

   Synonyms: außer, exklusive, ohne

• sondergleichen

• besonders
• sonder-
• sonderbar
• sonderlich

• “sonder” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “sonder” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Borrowed from Javanese ꦱꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦝꦺꦂ (sondhér).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsonder/ [ˈson.dɛr]
• Rhymes: -onder
• Syllabification: son‧der

sondér (plural sonder-sonder)

1. shawl

   Synonym: selendang

Borrowed from English sonder.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsonder/ [ˈson.dɛr]
• Rhymes: -onder
• Syllabification: son‧der

sondér (plural sonder-sonder)

1. (psychology) sonder

Borrowed from Dutch zonder (“without”), from Middle Dutch sonder, from Old Dutch sunder, from Proto-Germanic *sundraz.

• zonder (unadapted borrowing)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsondər/ [ˈson.dər]
• Rhymes: -ondər
• Syllabification: son‧der

sondêr

1. (dialectal or obsolete) synonym of tanpa (“without”)

• “sonder” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• zonder

From Dutch zonder, from Middle Dutch sonder, from Old Dutch sunder, from Proto-Germanic *sundraz.

sonder (Jawi spelling سوندر)

1. (Netherlands, Indonesia) synonym of tanpa (“without”)

From Old Dutch sunder, from Proto-Germanic *sundraz.

sonder [with accusative]

1. without
2. except (for)

• Dutch: zonder
  • Afrikaans: sonder
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: sondro
  • Jersey Dutch: zonder
  • Negerhollands: sonder, sondu
  • → Aukan: sondee
  • → Caribbean Javanese: sonder
  • → Malay: sonder
  • → Indonesian: sonder, zonder
  • → Javanese: ꦱꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦝꦼꦂ (sondher)
  • → Saramaccan: sondò
  • → Sranan Tongo: sondro
• Limburgish: zónger

• “sonder (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “sonder (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

From Old French sonder, from sonde (“sounding line”), from Old English [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *sundą (“a swim, body of water, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *swem(bh)- (“to be unsteady, swim”).

sonder

1. (Jersey) to sound

sonder m pl

1. indefinite plural of sonde

sonder

1. indefinite plural of sond