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Razbliuto

raz-blee-OO-toh

n.The feeling for someone you once loved and no longer do — the memory of the emotion, without the emotion.

Attributed to Russian; of disputed and probably invented etymologyInformal expression

Popularly attributed to Russian, but linguists have not found it in Russian dictionaries and it is widely considered invented. We publish it as a useful English coinage, not as a genuine loanword.

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