Showing posts with label Yearning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yearning. Show all posts

Friday, August 2, 2013

New word for the day


Toska

Russian –   “ At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.” as explained by Vladmir Nabokov.