Solastalgia

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Solastalgia = Distress or melancholy caused by a significant change to one's local environment.

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Solastalgia = Combination of the Latin word solacium (comfort) and the Greek root –algia (pain), which he defined as “the pain experienced when there is recognition that the place where one resides and that one loves is under immediate assault. . . a form of homesickness one gets when one is still at ‘home.’ - [|Is There an Ecological Unconscious?]

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