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Meaning of Sehnsucht in English:

Sehnsucht

noun

mass noun literary

  • Yearning; wistful longing.

    ‘a small enclave of adolescent Sehnsucht in her almost undeviatingly rational friend’
    • ‘Her Sehnsucht was gone thereafter, and her cruise to view the eclipse was the last gift she was ever bequeathed by her nameless knight.’

Pronunciation

Sehnsucht

/ˈzeɪnzuːxt/ /ˈzeːnzʊxt/

Origin

German.