desideriumn.
An ardent desire or wish; a longing, properly for a thing once possessed and now missed; a sense of loss.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > sorrow caused by loss > [noun]
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desiderium1715
1715 J. Swift Let. to Pope 28 June When I leave a country..I think as seldom as I can of what I loved or esteemed in it, to avoid the desiderium which of all things makes life most uneasy.
1776 G. White Let. 9 May in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 215 This strange affection probably was occasioned by that desiderium.
1883 Sat. Rev. 21 Apr. 485/2 Many Liberals regard the memory of Lord Beaconsfield with a desiderium which has not been exhibited towards that of any English political leader within the memory of living man.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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