id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2295 Saudade - Wikipedia .html text/html 3961 471 69 The state of mind has subsequently become a "Portuguese way of life": a constant feeling of absence, the sadness of something that's missing, wistful longing for completeness or wholeness and the yearning for the return of what is now gone, a desire for presence as opposed to absence—as it is said in Portuguese, a strong desire to matar as saudades (lit. Saudade is a word in Portuguese and Galician that claims no direct translation in English. Despite being hard to translate in full, saudade has equivalent words in other cultures, and is often related to music styles expressing this feeling such as the blues for African-Americans, Sehnsucht in German, dor in Romania, Tizita in Ethiopia, Hiraeth in Welsh, or Assouf for the Tuareg people, appocundria in Neapolitan. Although saudade is also a Galician word, the meaning of longing for something that might return is generally associated with morriña. "BBC Brasil": Saudade is the 7th most difficult word to translate (in Portuguese), London: BBC, 23 June 2004. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2295.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2295.txt