Editing Saudade (section)

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[[File:Almeida Júnior - Saudade (Longing) - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|''Saudade'' (1899), by [[Almeida Júnior]]]]
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'''''Saudade'''''{{efn|{{IPA|pt-PT|sɐwˈðaðɨ|lang}}; {{IPA|pt-BR|sawˈdadʒi|lang|Saudade-pronunciation-ptbr.ogg}}; {{IPA|gl|sawˈðaðɪ|lang}}; <small>Northeast Brazil:</small> {{IPA|pt|sawˈdadi|}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.priberam.pt/DLPO/default.aspx?pal=saudade|title=Significado / definição de saudade no Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa|author=Priberam Informática, S.A.|access-date=14 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091108122851/http://www.priberam.pt/DLPO/default.aspx?pal=saudade|archive-date=8 November 2009|url-status=live}}</ref>}} ({{IPAc-en|lang|s|aʊ|ˈ|d|ɑː|d|ə}};<ref>{{Cite dictionary |url=http://www.lexico.com/definition/Saudade |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200509085758/https://www.lexico.com/definition/saudade |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 May 2020 |title=Saudade |dictionary=[[Lexico]] UK English Dictionary |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]}}</ref> plural '''''saudades''''') is a word in [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] and [[Galician language|Galician]] denoting an emotional state of [[melancholic]] or profoundly [[nostalgic]] longing for a beloved yet absent someone or something. It derives from the [[Latin]] word for solitude.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Pap |first=Leo |date=1992-04-01 |title=On the etymology of Portuguese SAUDADE: an instance of multiple causation? |journal=WORD |language=en |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=97–102 |doi=10.1080/00437956.1992.12098282 |issn=0043-7956 |doi-access=free}}</ref> It is often associated with a repressed understanding that one might never encounter the object of longing ever again. It is a recollection of feelings, experiences, places, or events, often elusive, that cause a sense of separation from the exciting, pleasant, or joyous sensations they once caused. Duarte Nunes Leão defines ''saudade'' as, "[[Memory]] of something with a [[desire]] for it".<ref>{{cite web |last=<!--Nascimento and Meandro (2005) cite --> |title=MEMORANDUM 08 - NASCIMENTO A.R.A e MENANDRO P.R.M. |url=http://www.fafich.ufmg.br/~memorandum/artigos08/nascimenan01.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180422075116/http://www.fafich.ufmg.br/~memorandum/artigos08/nascimenan01.htm |archive-date=22 April 2018 |access-date=30 January 2016 |website=www.fafich.ufmg.br}}</ref>
In Brazil, the day of ''saudade'' is officially celebrated on 30 January.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.portoalegre.rs.gov.br/pwdtcomemorativas/default.php?reg=11&p_secao=57|title=Portoweb - Datas Comemorativas|access-date=30 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724225338/http://www2.portoalegre.rs.gov.br/pwdtcomemorativas/default.php?reg=11&p_secao=57|archive-date=24 July 2011|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brasilescola.com/datacomemorativas/dia-da-saudade.htm|title=Dia da Saudade. Origem e curiosidades sobre o Dia da Saudade - Brasil Escola|work=Brasil Escola|access-date=30 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100213205126/http://www.brasilescola.com/datacomemorativas/dia-da-saudade.htm|archive-date=13 February 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> It is not a widely acknowledged day in Portugal.