hiraeth

noun

1. A feeling of homesickness, longing or yearning for something comfortable or familiar, especially in a Welsh context.

   rare, uncountable

   So this hiraeth is good in some sense , although you feel the evil of it perhaps the moment that I am writing this.

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Welsh hiraeth (“longing, nostalgia”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry hiraeth (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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