Hypocognized Emotions

An emotion for which society possesses little knowledge. One indicator of hypocognition is having few or no lexical entries (or words) for that emotion. For instance, if a society categorizes “feeling ill”, “troubled” and “fatigued” under the category of “sadness”, then sadness is hypocognized in that particular society.

Reference:
Levy, R. I. (1984). The emotions in comparative perspective. In Scherer, K.R. & Ekman, P. (Eds.). Approaches to emotion. New Jersey: Hillsdale. pp. 397-412.

Russell, J. A. (1991). Culture and the categorization of emotions. Psychological Bulletin, 110(3), 426-450. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.110.3.426