Welcome to another Weird Word post as part of my Creative Coping Strategies campaign.
This time I’ve researched a word that is apparantly still used commonly, but I’ve never heard it before!
This is a word that is deliberately used at a time when our nation (and much of the world) has been in a period of mourning following the death of The Queen.
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Desiderium
: an ardent desire or longing
especially : a feeling of loss or grief for something lost
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/desiderium, accessed September 2022
I think I would therefore word the sentence this way…
“I feel much desiderium for the Queen since she passed.”.
Although I’m not entirely sure!
Let me know if this is a Weird Word you already knew. Maybe my vocabulary isn’t as broad as I thought!
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Thanks for reading 💜
Creative Steph 