#Microblog Monday 340: The Perfect Word
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I learned a new word thanks to the BBC: hiraeth. It is “a pull on the heart that conveys a distinct feeling of missing something irretrievably lost.” It’s a “blend of homesickness, nostalgia and longing.”
Isn’t that a perfect word?
It’s that realization that a moment has passed, and you can never get back to it. Like college—you can revisit the location, and you can visit individual people from that time period, but you can’t get the moment back where you were that age in that space with those people.
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4 comments
Hmmm. Sounds a lot like the portuguese “Saudade”, and we thought there was no equivalent in any language except for the german sehnsucht.
That is a perfect word. New to me too.
I love that word. I love the different meanings of similar words in similar cultures. Thanks for introducing me to a new one.
“The distinct feeling of losing something irretrievably lost”
Yes. this feeling, I know deeply.