Wehmutn.
/ˈveɪmuːt/ Sadness, melancholy, wistfulness, nostalgia.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [noun] > nostalgia
nostalgia1900
Wehmut1907
saudade1912
1907 E. von Arnim Fräulein Schmidt xlii. 164 What I feel when I listen to music is chiefly Wehmuth, and I don't think much of Wehmuth... It is a forlorn thing, made up mostly of vague ingredients—vague yearnings, vague regrets, vague dissatisfactions.
1920 D. H. Lawrence Let. in C. Mackenzie My Life & Times (1966) V. 170 I get a sort of Wehmut. Quoi faire!
1933 J. Hilton Lost Horizon 20 A sort of universal sadness,..something remote or impersonal, a Wehmut or Weltschmerz, or whatever the Germans call it.
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n.1907- lose heart
- lose hold, one's balance
- lose it
- lose it that
- lose leather
- lose no time
- lose nothing in the telling
- lose oil
- lose one's bearings
- lose one's bottle
- lose one's breath
- lose one's cherry
- lose one's cool
- lose one's eyes
- lose one's fastball
- lose one's grip
- lose one's hair
- lose one's head
- lose one's heart
- lose one's heart to
- lose one's labour
- lose one's legs
- lose one's life
- lose one's maidenhead
- lose one's marbles