Did you perhaps mean one of these? tonka, tosa
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“Of all beverages, tea alone has the proverbial power to relieve toska, the sadness and melancholy which traditionally burden the Russian spirit.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘toska’.
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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lost in translation
tarof, gambol, hyggelig, tenalach, saudade, pena ajena, l’esprit d’escalier, ya'aburnee, gezellig, ningunear, duende, cafune and 5 more...
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words in foreign languages
weltanschauung, saudade, bokeh, caoutchouc, pamplemousse, citrouille, nocturne, kaddish, matryoshka, tournesol, weltschmerz, duende and 56 more...
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various degrees of importability
for memory
mysa, fika, lagom, orka, harkla, hinna, blunda, vabba, duktig, jobbig, gubbe, gumma and 5 more...
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foreign
demitasse, apéritif, joie de vivre, sui generis, weltschmerz, weltanschauung, l'esprit de l'esc..., magnum opus, paterfamilias, idée fixe, saudade, gestalt and 62 more...
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interesting
lesser known, interesting words.
hiraeth, melodeon, bedizen, maudlin, noctuary, peripeteia, phosphene, celadon, aeolist, cislunar, etiolation, pareidolia and 20 more...
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six
rutsch mir den Bu..., nique ta mere, Ca me fait chier, fahr zur hölle, lavender, lilac, cassiopeia, anthracite, svartálfar, Saigon, Du kannst mich ma..., toska and 36 more...
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complex emotion, single word
I keep looking for lists of these; most are too wide-ranging and/or orientalist* to be useful. Here's a start. Suggestions welcome.
I didn't want to include all the old chestnuts, but ...weltschmerz, anomie, schadenfreude, accidie, angst, ennui, sehnsucht, saudade, toska, akrasia, funktionslust, natsukashi and 9 more...
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dogfish's Words
somnambulist, pulchritude, serpentine, awkward, ambulatory, arsenic, firmament, meretricious, snarky, casuistry, spinal, ephemeral and 78 more...
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lyricalbliss6 Vladmir Nabokov: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.” Dec 12, 2010