Hear this episode and find out more about the words people chose as most soothing at theallusionist.org/tranquillusionist
This is the Allusionist, in which I, Helen Zaltzman, read out the words that you've told me you find the most soothing. Just in case you need a bit of audio to help with stress or anxiety or fear... Put it on a loop to get you to sleep… Whatever - your podcaster friends that live in your brains are here for you in times of need.
Gonna do these words in alphabetical order:
abide ☁️ aesthetic ☁️ albatross ☁️ Allusionist ☁️ almohada (That’s ‘pillow’ in Spanish) ☁️ alpaca ☁️ althea ☁️ ambience ☁️ among ☁️ antimacassar ☁️ autumnal ☁️ avuncular ☁️ awesome ☁️ azure
baby 🌥️ babysitter 🌥️ ballonnetje - Dutch for 'little balloon' 🌥️ balm 🌥️ banana 🌥️ begonia 🌥️ bioluminescence 🌥️ bosky 🌥️ breath 🌥️ breathe 🌥️ brook 🌥️ broom 🌥️ browse 🌥️ Bubble! Bug ! Beep 🌥️ buoyancy 🌥️ buttermilk
cake 🌙 calm 🌙 camaraderie 🌙 caramel 🌙 cascade 🌙 celestial 🌙 cellar door 🌙 chamomile 🌙 chiasmata 🌙 Chrononhotonthologos 🌙 chubby 🌙 chuchoter (French for whisper) 🌙 chuva (rain, in Portuguese) 🌙 cloud 🌙 comfort 🌙 compassion 🌙 compersion 🌙 consideration 🌙 coorie 🌙 cosy 🌙 cucchaio 🌙 cuddle 🌙 cumulonimbus 🌙 custard 🌙 cwtch
dapple 🐐 dappled 🐐 decay 🐐 Delicious 🐐 demure 🐐 diaphanous 🐐 diaspora 🐐 diazepam 🐐 dishevelled 🐐 dissolve 🐐 doily 🐐 down comforter 🐐 dugong 🐐 dunk 🐐 dunking 🐐 duvet
ebb 🌊 ebullient 🌊 effervescent 🌊 eiderdown 🌊 ellipses 🌊 ellipsis 🌊 eloquent 🌊 ember 🌊 embouchure 🌊 embrace 🌊 ennui 🌊 ephemeral 🌊 epiphany 🌊 epiphany 🌊 equipoise 🌊 euouae 🌊 euphoria
Facebook 🦑 fall 🦑 fermentation 🦑 fig tree 🦑 fluff 🦑 francisco 🦑 frosting 🦑 fulsome
galoshes 🛁 garlicky 🛁 gazebo 🛁 gloaming 🛁 grace 🛁 gravy 🛁 grimoire 🛁 guinea pig
halcyon 🐌 harmony 🐌 hengenvaara “is a lovely smooth Finnish word that means something like 'Danger to Life'“? Weird choice… 🐌 hoi polloi 🐌 honey 🐌 hot cocoa with marshmallows 🐌 humble
incunabula 🐟 indubitably 🐟 inimitable 🐟 iridescent
jasmine ⭐ je suis...
kashikomarimashita (Japanese for "certainly") 🔭 kerfuffle 🔭 kids’ bedtime
lavender 💡les enfants💡 liminal 💡loam 💡lodestar 💡loosen 💡loquacious 💡love 💡lovely 💡lozenge 💡lugubrious 💡lull 💡lulluby
mädchen 🌸 mahogany 🌸 marshmallow 🌸 marvellous 🌸 mascarpone 🌸 meadow 🌸 melisma 🌸 mellifluent 🌸 mellifluous 🌸 mellow 🌸 melodious 🌸 miasma 🌸 mimosa 🌸 mommy 🌸 mooncake 🌸 moooooooooooooooooooooon 🌸 muffins 🌸 mukluks 🌸 murmur 🌸 murmurate 🌸 murmuration
Nancy Meyers 🦉nestled 🦉Neuschwanstein 🦉 niche 🦉 nincompoop 🦉 Nova Scotia 🦉nuzzle
ocean 🥄 ocean waves 🥄 okapi 🥄 om 🥄 oolong 🥄 ornithologist 🥄 ouroboros
pal 🐋 palimpsest 🐋 pamplemousse 🐋 pastel 🐋 patisserie 🐋 penguins 🐋 penultimate 🐋 perfection 🐋 petrichor 🐋 phenomenally 🐋 philoxeny 🐋 placid 🐋 plump up (as in cushions) 🐋 pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis 🐋 pomelo 🐋 poultice 🐋 preen 🐋 prepare 🐋 primrose 🐋 purr 🐋 pyroclastic flow
quiddity 🍃 quiescent 🍃 quorate
radiance 🏔️ relax 🏔️ resplendent 🏔️ rhythm 🏔️ river
s'il vous plaît 🐢 safe 🐢 salubrious 🐢 sassafras 🐢 saunter 🐢 sausage 🐢 scissors 🐢 serendipitous 🐢serendipity 🐢 serene 🐢 sesquicentenary 🐢 shimmering 🐢 simmer 🐢 sleep 🐢 slumber 🐢 smooch 🐢 smooth 🐢 snooze 🐢 snug 🐢 snuggle 🐢 solace 🐢 soliloquy 🐢 solitude 🐢 sombra 🐢 somnambulist 🐢 somnolent 🐢 soothing 🐢 soporific 🐢 soulful 🐢 sputum 🐢 squeegee 🐢 squishy 🐢 sssssh 🐢 stepping-stone 🐢 stillness 🐢 Straßenbahn 🐢 sunflower 🐢 sunrise 🐢 sunshine 🐢 superb 🐢 supple 🐢 surcease 🐢 surrender 🐢 sustenance 🐢 susurrance 🐢 susurrate 🐢 susurration 🐢 susurrus 🐢 sweetheart 🐢 swoosh 🐢 syllabub
taramasalata 🌂 teacup 🌂 tenderness 🌂 thanks 🌂 thermoluminescence 🌂 tick tock tick tock 🌂 tintinnabulation 🌂 toothsome 🌂 transcend 🌂 trundle 🌂 trunk 🌂 twilight
undulate 🦅 unfurl
vanilla 🥞 verisimilitude
waffle 🐡 weekend 🐡 whisht 🐡 whisper 🐡 whoosh 🐡 willow 🐡 willowy 🐡 winsome 🐡 wombat 🐡 wonderland 🐡 Woollomooloo
zanshinzephyr 🍊 zephyrous 🍊zigzag 🍊 zion 🍊 zoom 🍊 zooxanthellae
Those were your choices of soothing words. I hope you're able to be safe and well in body and mind.
This was voiced and produced by me, Helen Zaltzman. The music is by Martin Austwick.
The Allusionist is technically on a break at the moment, but I never really go away. You can find all the episodes at theallusionist.org.
