Word:
Toska
Status:
Noun
Meaning:
Sadness. A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.
Sentence:
1) Of all beverages, tea alone has the proverbial power to relieve toska.
2) The sight of my dead mother's photograph threw me into a fit of toska.
Origin:
Russian
Synonyms:
despondency, melancholy, desolation, sorrow
Antonyms:
cheer, happiness
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