Waldeinsamkeit

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German

Etymology

From Wald (forest) +‎ Einsamkeit (loneliness), popularized by Ludwig Tieck and associated with German Romanticism.

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Noun

Waldeinsamkeit f (genitive Waldeinsamkeit, plural Waldeinsamkeiten)

  1. (poetic, now uncommon) woodland solitude (the feeling of solitude in the woods)
    • 1851, Heinrich Heine, “Waldeinsamkeit”, in Romanzero, Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, Zweites Buch: Lamentationen:
      Der schöne Kranz gefiel wohl Allen, / Doch der ihn trug hat Manchem mißfallen; / Ich floh den gelben Menschenneid, / Ich floh in die grüne Waldeinsamkeit.
      All were well pleased by the wreath, / Yet he who carried it displeased many, / I escaped that verdant human jealousy, / I escaped into the solitude of the green forest.
    • 1875, “Ein Herbstmittag im Thiergarten von Berlin”, in Die Gartenlaube, number 40:
      So hat der Thiergarten trotz seiner in einzelnen Theilen abschreckenden, verpesteten Sümpfe, trotz seines lybischen entsetzlichen Staubes doch malerische Fußwege, herrliche Partieen erquickender Waldeinsamkeit, stille Solitüden, wo der Lärm des Weltstadtlebens verstummt und nur die Nachtigall flötet, die Taube girrt, der Specht hämmert.
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    • 1909, Lily Braun, chapter 7, in Memoiren einer Sozialistin [Memoirs of a Socialist]‎, Lehrjahre, München: Albert Langen:
      [] indes der Reiter sich leise durch tiefe Waldeinsamkeit tragen läßt und das edle Tier unter ihm den reinen ruhigen Genuß der Natur nicht stört.
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