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Charmolypi


[char-mo-lip]
/xaɾ.moˈli.pi/


NOUN
Greek

The joy that emerges out of the middle of sadness and conversely, the sadness that emerges out of joy.

“Staring at her childhood home, she was overwhelmed by the feeling of charmolypi as she braced herself for a new chapter of her life.”

From Words of the World:

The sadness mixed with happiness you feel when you’re leaving your long-time job for a higher career step, or the hard-to-describe feelings on the day your son or daughter left home to go to the university of their dreams.

The article is a good read, and the rest can be found here: Words of the World

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