English Explanatory Dictionary

huzun

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A feeling of somber and listless melancholy caused by one's personal failings but which is felt communally as a universal and perhaps uplifting experience.

Word forms

huzun

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish hüzün.

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