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perlerorneq
Extreme winter depression — the weight of life felt during the dark months of the polar winter, when the sun does not rise and the cold is absolute. Not clinical depression but a cultural recognition that darkness has a gravity.
Etymology
Polar Eskimo / Inuktitut: perlerorneq. A word that names what the dark does to the mind.