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Is there a word for nostalgia, wistfulness or yearning for something
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Is there a word for nostalgia, wistfulness or yearning for something never personally experienced? If not natively to English but a loanword, it seems a common enough experience that there would be.
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>>7409885
Forlorn seems somewhat close, but the emotion would be more sad than happy.
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There's a word in japanese for it but I forget.
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God, that cover.
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>>7409885
"vaporwave"
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>>7409885
Anticipation is a more obvious word, but not so good either. You could try and combine it with something like " an anticipatory-wistfulness"
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_no_aware

That was it. Alternatively, the brazilian "Saudade"
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>>7409910
>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_no_aware
Cheers, that was another concept that I'd read about some time ago but could not remember.Certainly useful, but I feel Saudade might work better.
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>>7409885
"le wrong generation"
"schizophrenia"
"psychosis"
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>>7409885
> Turn of the Screw book cover
> they're turning a bolt
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>>7409898
>anticipatory-wistfulness
srsly?
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>>7409885
is sehnsucht what you're looking for? or saudade?
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Has anyone here seen the opera? It's pretty interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEA5ByEhX6g
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In infinite jest david calls it "historical consciousness"
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>>7409950

That's Tutis for you.
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Arcadianism

Fucking plebs no start Greeks
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Romanticism.
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>>7409910
> Brazilian
> Saudade
kek my portuguese jimmies are rustled. There is no 'Brazilian' language, Brazil's official language is Portuguese which in their case has some variations such as accent and specific idiomatic expressions.
In Portuguese 'Saudade(s)' means the emocional yearning for something which has gone absent and is causing sadness or pain. For instance the feeling one gets off a friend or a place one has not seen for a long time. You can yearn for something or someone you have never had or met before but you cannot say you feel 'saudades'. There is an obligatory condition of having had something that you don't anymore
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>>7409950
thats a nut, dumfuk
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>>7409910
>saudade
>brazilian
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"Borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered 80s"
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