Why this word is great
KALOPSIA — [Noun] The delusion that things are more beautiful than they are in reality. From Ancient Greek καλοψία (kalopsía), from καλός (kalós, "good, beautiful, lovely") + ὄψις (ópsis, "view, sight"). Unlike optimism, a general hopefulness about the future, or idealism, the conscious pursuit of high principles, kalopsia is a specific, involuntary corruption of the senses. It is the rusty fire escape shimmering like filigree in the sunset, the tarnished brass of a rainy bus stop gleaming like gold, and the worn face of a beloved transformed into an icon of impossible radiance—a merciful pathology that briefly redeems a fallen world.