coined by John Koenig
exulansis
Back from five months at a research station in Antarctica, you answer the third person who asks how it was with "cold" and start talking about their kitchen.
Words for grief
Loss, sorrow, and the long tail of things that are gone.
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hiraeth
A Welsh nurse in a London flat hears a male voice choir through the wall and grieves for a valley, and people, she cannot get back.
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saudade
Hearing a fado on a Lisbon tram and missing a grandmother's kitchen that is gone, while half-enjoying the missing.
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toska тоска
A cab driver whose son has died tells the story to passengers who do not listen, then to his horse.