Hiraeth
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Grogie
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Hiraeth
A homesickness for a home that one cannot return to or which never existed in the first place. ''He knew that he could not go home again but, nevertheless, he felt a powerful hiraeth for his home town.''
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Slava
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Re: Hiraeth
Welsh for nostalgia, but with an added fillip of irrationality.
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