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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesmélancolie
Pronunciation / Transliteration: melancolie
"Un sentiment de mélancolie se dégageait de ses paroles."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
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A feeling of vague or regretful longing.
"A touch of wistfulness crept into her voice as she looked at the old photographs."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from 'wistful' (17th century, possibly an alteration of 'wishful' influenced by 'wistly' meaning intently or wistly gazing), plus the nominal suffix '-ness'.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Wistfulness" is said worldwide
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mélancolie
Transliteration: melancolie
"Un sentiment de mélancolie se dégageait de ses paroles."
Wehmut
Transliteration: Wehmut
"Er blickte mit einer gewissen Wehmut auf seine Jugend zurück."
nostalgia
Transliteration: nostalgia
"Nei suoi occhi c'era un velo di malinconia e wistfulness."
melancolía
Transliteration: melancolia
"Había una profunda melancolía en su mirada."
nostalgia
Transliteration: nostalgia
"Ela olhou para o horizonte com um sentimento de nostalgia."
उदासीनता
Transliteration: udasinta
"पुरानी यादों को देखकर उसके चेहरे पर एक उदासीनता छा गई।"
留恋
Transliteration: liúliàn
"她看着老照片，眼中流露出淡淡的留恋。"
애수
Transliteration: aesu
"그의 목소리에는 묘한 애수가 묻어 있었다."
物思い
Transliteration: monomoi
"彼女の瞳には切ない物思いの色が浮かんでいた。"
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