| тоска Jul 30th 2011, 01:35 Noun: | ← Older revision | Revision as of 01:35, 30 July 2011 | | Line 9: | Line 9: | | | # [[melancholy]], [[depression]] | | # [[melancholy]], [[depression]] | | | # [[boredom]], [[ennui]], [[weariness]] | | # [[boredom]], [[ennui]], [[weariness]] | | | + | # Vladmir Nabokov describes it: "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom." | | | | | | | | ====Declension==== | | ====Declension==== | | |
