Words, Connections and Definitions
There is nothing as powerful as words, which, as a unit of language, functions as a principal carrier of meaning.
provide the desperate with hope hope strong enough to blind them from the truth
(adjective) 1. free of deceit, hypocrisy, falseness, or pretense 2. genuine; real 3. Archaic Pure; unadulterated; unmixed
(noun) deep longing for something, especially one's home.
(adjective) 1. too great or intense to be expressed in words; unutterable 2. too sacred to be uttered 3. indescribable; indefinable
(noun) 1. a favourable, appropriate, or advantageous combination of circumstances 2. a chance or prospect
(noun) 1. now 2. a gift
(noun, a Portuguese and Galician word with no direct translation in English) It describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves. It often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing may never return. It can also describe the love that remains after someone is gone.
(adjective) 1. feeling regret, compunction, sympathy, pity, etc 2. regrettable or deplorable; unfortunate; tragic 3. sorrowful, grieved, or sad 4. associated with sorrow; suggestive of grief or suffering; melancholy; dismal. 5. wretched, poor, useless, or pitiful 6. (used interjectionally as a conventional apology or expression of regret)
(adj) not deliberate; unmotivated, unplanned, inadvertent, accidental, intentionality, unintentional, causeless, fortuitous, unwitting, uncaused
(adjective) 1. lasting for only a short time; transitory (noun) 1. (Biology) a short-lived organism, such as the mayfly
(noun) 1. the fact of being who or what a person or thing is 2. a close similarity or affinity 3. the state or fact of remaining the same one, as under varying aspects or conditions 4. the sense of self, providing sameness and continuity in personality over time 5. exact likeness in nature or qualities 6. (logic) an assertion that two terms refer to the same thing 7. (math) a. an equation that is valid for all values of its variables b. also called identity element
(noun, a Welsh word with no direct translation in English) It describes a concept of yearning for a place removed in space or time. It describes a homesickness for a home you can't return to, or that never was; a homesickness tinged with grief or sadness over the lost or departed. It describes a mixed feeling of longing, yearning, nostalgia, wistfulness, or an earnest desire for the Wales of the past.
(noun) 1. the desire to learn or know about anything; inquisitiveness 2. a curious, rare, or novel thing 3. a strange, curious, or interesting quality 4. Archaic. carefulness; fastidiousness
(noun) 1. stimulation or arousal of the mind, feelings, etc, to special or unusual activity or creativity 2. the state or quality of being so stimulated or aroused 3. someone or something that causes this state 4. an idea or action resulting from such a state 5. (Physiology) the act or process of inhaling; breathing in
Persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success.
(verb) attempt to find (something)
“How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us, we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.” -W.H. Auden
is a property of systems that increase in capability, resilience, or robustness as a result of stressors, shocks, volatility, noise, mistakes, faults, attacks, or failures
"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you." -