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Saudade is still my favorite.
Uitwaaien Dutch - The pleasure of walking in windy weather. Nervio: "a feeling of such intense affection that one trembles or grits his teeth with restraint so as not to harm the object of his affection." spannungsbogen - a German word with lots of range. It is a kind of tension toward action-potential, but with an incredible precision built into the notion. For these reasons it has also come to be used in situations of noteworthy self-control.
Author Frank Herbert famously described it as "The self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing" and a German friend of mine called it the energy at the elbow of a drawn bowstring.
mañana - I've heard that in some contexts this Spanish word, meaning 'tomorrow,' means 'the tomorrow that will never come.' In other words, a tomorrow that we each hope and long for because the hope of it inspires us despite the impossibility / unlikelihood of its arrival. Sad Inat - (Serbian, pronounced "eenat") It is more of an attitude of proud defiance, stubbornness and self-preservation - sometimes to the detriment of everyone else or even oneself. searching for: a word to describe how I feel when I am climbing a mountain and look down into Yosemite Valley, so full of vibrant green life and cool hidden brooks, and I feel the solidness and timelessness and enormity of the granite stone around me. the complement to being aware of the mono no aware of myself. ! Perhaps this is "duende" from Spanish, originally used to describe a mythical, spritelike entity that possesses humans and creates the feeling of awe of one’s surroundings in nature, its meaning has transitioned into referring to “the mysterious power that a work of art has to deeply move a person.”