"“‘Zozobra’ is an ordinary Spanish word for anxiety, but in Mexican philosophy it has been used to articulate that wobbling, groundless feeling that a person can have when the whole world has this uncertainty and unreliability,” said Gallegos, who studies the philosophy of emotions.
Originally, the word referred to the movement of a ship on rough seas that is about to capsize, but it also describes the feeling of disorientation many of us have experienced this year."
https://news.wfu.edu/2020/11/18/zozobra-the-best-word-for-the-worst-year/
