Saudade
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Saudade in Portuguese and Galician is an emotional state of melancholic or profoundly nostalgic longing for a beloved yet absent someone or something. It derives from the Latin word for solitude. It i
Saudade (1899), by Almeida Júnior
Saudades de Nápoles (Missing Naples), 1895 by Bertha Worms
Cape Verdean singer Cesária Évora had her biggest hit singing about saudade.
Sehnsucht
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Sehnsucht is a German noun translated as "longing", "desire", "yearning", or "craving". Some psychologists use the word to represent thoughts and feelings about all facets of life that are unfinished
Saudade
…words in other cultures, and is often related to music styles expressing this feeling such as the blues for African-Americans, añoranza in Spain, Sehnsucht in German, dor in Romania, Tizita in Ethiopia, Hiraeth in Welsh, or Assouf for the Tuareg people, appocundria in Neapolitan, or mall in Albanian. In…
Sehnsucht by Oskar Zwintscher, c. 1900
Sehnsucht (Dreaming) by Heinrich Vogeler about 1900
Sehnsucht, sculpture by Susanne Kraißer