When not used for its literal sense, Waldeinsamkeit is often featured in lists of untranslatable words prized for the way they so poetically package the complexity of human experience into a single word.Ģ3 Emotions People Feel but Can't Explain. I am Germany // Alex G & UK IFA Club April 15, 2018 Just a reminder that Germans can, actually, build airports. Stylish, easy to navigate, roomy, and clean as a whistle. I'm now in Düsseldorf Airport, which is one of the best in the world. I'm on my way to Finland for some Sibelius-worship and Waldeinsamkeit. Then a friend told me about this amazing German word "Waldeinsamkeit – Solitude of the forest" Having a bad day last Friday and got up early next day for a walk in the woods, where I've always been happiest. Early uses of Waldeinsamkeit came from German Romantic poetry that celebrates the quiet serenity of being solitary in the woods.Ĭan’t put into words that spiritual satisfaction you get when you’re alone in nature? Well, Germans can, and it’s Waldeinsamkeit. Note that it’s properly capitalized, as is true for all German nouns. Attested in German by at least 1822, the word is closely associated with Romanticism, a literary movement that idealized emotion, nature, individualism, and the imagination. The origins of Waldeinsamkeit clue us into its lyrical meaning. But here in Idaho, I think Hygge is more appropriate.
🍂🌼ĭue to its landscape, this is best conveyed for me in Arkansas as Waldeinsamkeit. Taking the time to slow things down and look…feel, smell and remember. I'm most happy with life when I'm bathing in the world around me. Together, Waldeinsamkeit literally translates to “solitude in the forest,” but that literal translation loses the word’s poetry. It combines Wald (“wood”) and Einsamkeit (“loneliness”). German is famous for what are sometimes called untranslatables: single words whose definitions are wonderfully specific or complex enough that, when translated into another language, they require numerous words to express the same idea.
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