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WordDaily - Sehnsucht NOUN Yearning; wistful longing

Posted by crash davis 😺 (aka crash davis) Jan 23 '24, 06:38

EXAMPLE SENTENCES
“When I’m cooped up in the winter, I often feel a Sehnsucht for the joys of summer.”

“After serving as a bridesmaid for the fifth time, she started to feel a Sehnsucht for her turn as a bride.”

“Teens often feel a Sehnsucht and rush to grow up, but older generations can feel the opposite desire to return to their youth.”

WORD ORIGIN
German, mid-19th century

WHY THIS WORD?
We turn to German for a word that expresses a nuanced emotion we don’t have a single word for in English. “Sehnsucht” describes a wistful longing, perhaps a wishful thinking for what could have been. It has likely been used in German for much longer, but it entered English usage in “Vanity Fair,” the 1848 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray: “It is no blame to them that after marriage this ‘Sehnsucht nach der Liebe’ subsides.” The full German phrase translates as “longing for love.”

https://worddaily.com/words/Sehnsucht/ (worddaily.com)

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that was my word of the day too! If given a dozen chances, I could neither spell nor pronounce this correctly -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jan 23, 06:39 1
- Though this video makes it seem like it is something only for young women, I have a Sehnsucht to be able to do this in 2 years. -- (link) - crash davis 😺 Jan 23, 06:41 [youtube]

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