Furora Fabula Absentosum

furora fabula absentosum is the latin term for the feeling of being angry at someone who isn’t there and having little arguments in your head with them about all the ways that they are wrong. In English, we don’t have a word for this, so I’ll make one up: “Absent Fury.” We also don’t have a phrase for this in Latin. I also made that one up.

But you know what I’m talking about—when you see an article about something that outrages you in one way and would outrage someone in another way (the wrong way) and you’re like, “ugh, why are they so wrong all the time!”

Most often, these absent furies do not translate into real conversations that actually happen. They merely exist to increase your heart rate and the levels of cortisol in your blood.