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Hiraethheer-eyeth
n. A homesickness for somewhere you cannot return to, the nostalgia and the grief for the lost places of your past, places that never were. Hiraeth shares some similarities with the wistfulness of saudade but is a kind of homesickness that the Welsh feel for the Wales of the past, and is tinged with a healthy dose of sadness and longing.
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