Hireath

Pronounced “heer-eyeth.” Derived from the Welsh words hir (long) and aeth (pain, grief). An “acute longing for a home-place or time to which you cannot return and without which you are incomplete.” Related (but not synonymous) with nostalgia and homesickness.

Reference:

Lomas, T. (2023). The value of ambivalent emotions: A cross-cultural lexical analysis. Qualitative Research in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2017.1400143