mono no aware

Noun

Meaning

mono no aware (uncountable)

A wistful awareness of the impermanence or transience of things.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Wistaria sprays, as they trail in the breeze, suggest softness, gentleness, reticence. Disappearing and then appearing again in the early summer greenery, they have in them that feeling for the poignant beauty of things long characterized by the Japanese as mono no aware. Yasunari Kawabata

Close letter words and terms

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