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Love for Words! Love for Feelings!!

This time indulge yourself in all those feelings that you failed to express just because you couldn’t find a suitable word that could describe the feeling wholly. Let’s indulge! Have you ever felt a fervent desire for your homeland? Or an ardent longing for a home you can’t return to or one that was never yours but you still feel that longing for it? Well that’s best expressed by a Welsh word ‘ Hiraeth ’ (pronounced [hiraɪ̯θ] ). It’s not just the feeling that we explain through the word nostalgia, but much more intense than that. Up next is one of my favorite word and that’s ‘ Gezellig ’. It’s a Danish word pronounced as heh-SELL-ick. This word encompasses the heart of the Dutch culture as Dutch tend to love all things gezellig. Its meaning include everything from cozy to companionable, welcoming to comfortable, amicable to gregarious and cheerful to satisfying. It denotes the meaningful and delightful time spend with ones loved ones and family members or friends. So let me pai...