/lit/ - Literature

despair comes close

>>20737905
i think despair is too grim and hopeless for the feeling im trying to describe

>>20737901
Remorse

If it's a word you've used before, to remember I usually act out a situation where I'd use the word and let it come naturally

ennui

>>20738305
good one
sort of a noun version of morose

>>20738300
>>20738332
morose remorse
almost an anagram

mono no aware
read any heian period lit for this feel

>>20738332
I use adjectives as nouns as I please and nobody can stop me

>>20738395
you've always been able to do that

>>20737901
>the feeling when a place you once held dear is now a shell
Remorse

>>20738447
Thats not what remorse means.

>>20738410
I haven't always been alive

the word you're looking for is disillusionment or disenchantment

>>20738458
no
because the old thing wasnt an enchanted illusion
it was real and now it is gone

>>20738501
dissipation, disappearance, cessation, demise, abandon, desertion, renunciation, dereliction...

Oh and next time speak less like a brusque entitled faggot, maybe people will be more inclined to help you. I still do because I care about raising the general vocabulary of the local population here, but you certainly are not inclined with the sweetest disposition of those which people like to help.

>>20738533
the guy who said ennui already nailed it before your pathetic display of vapid verbosity

>>20738533
the guy who said ennui already nailed it prior to your pathetic display of vapid verbosity

>>20737901
Nowness. Is an antonym of it, but what you want are words like this. Pictured

>>20738533
ennui guy already pretty much nailed it
your vapid verbosity is imprecise and unwanted

>>20737901
>anti nostalgia
Best antonym for this is nowness, but what you’re looking for are words like hiraeth, sehnsucht and saudade

>>20738564
Sorry about the double post. Site is working like mud for me atm

>>20738557
>>20738562
>>20738597
kek

>>20738564
>>20738599
also kek