ahnengeistとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

German compound. From German ahnen (“to sense, to have a premonition; to intuit something not yet spoken”) (compare Ahnung (“foreboding, vague foreknowledge”) and Ahnen (“forebears, ancestors”)) and Geist (“spirit, ghost, mind”). The compound evokes a ghost that arrives from the future rather than the past: the self that already knows, standing just beside the moment, watching it unfold.

名詞

ahnengeist (uncountable)

1. The spirit of one's future self, present in the moment, that quietly knows the plans others hold for you will not come to pass — watching with guilt, with tenderness, and from a slight remove.

参考

• hiraeth — Welsh; the longing for a place one cannot return to
• saudade — Portuguese; melancholic longing for something beloved

and absent

• Ahnung — German; a premonition or vague foreknowledge