GRE vocabulary
Saudade
A deep emotional state of melancholic longing for a person or thing that is absent; often with a knowledge that it may never return
Example
"She felt a powerful saudade for her homeland, a longing intensified by the distance and time."
Etymology
From Portuguese, of uncertain origin but possibly from Latin 'solitās' (solitude).
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