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名詞

hiraeth (uncountable)

1. (rare) A feeling of homesickness, longing or yearning for something comfortable or familiar, especially in a Welsh context.
   • 1927, Richard Humphyreys, The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, volume 26, Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England), page 116:

     So this hiraeth is good in some sense , although you feel the evil of it perhaps the moment that I am writing this.

   • 2020, Paul Thomas, Storytelling the Bible at the Creation Museum, Ark Encounter, and Museum of the Bible, Bloomsbury Publishing:

     Biblical hiraeth - the longing for an idealized biblical home that may have never existed - intersects with authenticity and the hyperreality of the theme park.