Almeida Júnior — Saudade, 1899.  Painting: oil on canvas, 197 x 101 cm. Pinacoteca

Saudade is an untranslatable Portuguese word. First attested in the late 13th century, saudade today connotes a melancholic feeling of incompleteness, wishful longing for wholeness, desire for presence as opposed to absence, yearning for the return of what has gone, such as experiences and pleasures once lived.