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Toska (Russian): according to Nabokov's translation of the Afro-Russian writer Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, it is "a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause... a longing with nothing too long for."

Fernweh (German): "a longing and homesickness for a place you have never been."