Etymology

mono no aware

Today it means: A wistful awareness of the impermanence or transience of things. Full definition →

Japanese 物の哀れ
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  1. Japanese · derived from物の哀れ
  2. English todaymono no aware

Japanese 物の哀れ, literally "the pathos of things".

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.