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  2. Saudade - Wikipedia

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    Saudade (English: / s aʊ ˈ d ɑː d ə /, [1] plural saudades) [a] is a word in Portuguese and Galician denoting an emotional state of melancholic or profoundly nostalgic longing for a beloved yet absent someone or something.

  3. Sehnsucht - Wikipedia

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    Sehnsucht (Dreaming) by Heinrich Vogeler about 1900. In Greek mythology, the Erotes are the gods of loving Sehnsucht, found with Eros in the company of Aphrodite.. A common mythical explanation of the feeling of Sehnsucht is offered by Plato in his dialogue Symposium though the speech of Aristophanes, who presents a comic and unusual myth about spherical two-headed men.

  4. Wishful thinking - Wikipedia

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    In addition to being a cognitive bias and a poor way of making decisions, wishful thinking is commonly held to be a specific informal fallacy in an argument when it is assumed that because we wish something to be true or false, it is actually true or false.

  5. Mono no aware - Wikipedia

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    Japanese woodblock print showcasing transience, precarious beauty, and the passage of time, thus "mirroring" mono no aware [1] Mono no aware (物の哀れ), [a] lit. ' the pathos of things ', and also translated as ' an empathy toward things ', or ' a sensitivity to ephemera ', is a Japanese idiom for the awareness of impermanence (無常, mujō), or transience of things, and both a transient ...

  6. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    An adjective applied to a melodic line that moves by step (intervals of a 2nd) rather than in disjunct motion (by leap). contralto Lowest female singing voice type contrapuntalism See counterpoint coperti (plural of coperto) covered (i.e. on a drum, muted with a cloth) corda String.

  7. English adjectives - Wikipedia

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    Such adjective phrases can be integrated into the clause (e.g., Love dies young) or detached from the clause as a supplement (e.g., Happy to see her, I wept). Adjective phrases functioning as predicative adjuncts are typically interpreted with the subject of the main clause being the predicand of the adjunct (i.e., "I was happy to see her"). [11]

  8. Adjective - Wikipedia

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    An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase.Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun. Traditionally, adjectives are considered one of the main parts of speech of the English language, although historically they were classed together with nouns. [1]

  9. Wistful - Wikipedia

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    Wistful (foaled in 1946 in Kentucky) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racemare. The daughter of Sun Again and granddaughter of Sun Teddy is best remembered for wins in the Kentucky Oaks , the Coaching Club American Oaks , the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes .