The article written by Emily Anthes, appearing in the New Yorker, May 12 issue
under the title, “The Glossary of Happiness” wraps up with the following
paragraph:

> Lomas (a lecturer in applied positive psychology at the University of East
> London) returned to the University of East London and launched the Positive
> Lexicography Project, an online glossary of untranslatable words. “If you
> just put them out there and people are aware of them, then—almost like
> linguistic natural selection—people will find ones that appeal to them, and
> they might start using them,” Lomas said. If he succeeds, we may stroll
> through these waning days of spring more aware of aware— **the Japanese noun
> for “the bittersweetness of a brief, fading moment of transcendent
> beauty**.”

I can’t think up a Japanese word (noun) equivalent to the notion, “the
bittersweetness of a brief, fading moment of transcendent beauty” in English.
Would you suggest me any Japanese counterpart that comes up to your mind?
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What is the Japanese word (noun) that means “the bittersweetness of a brief, fading moment of transcendent beauty.”?
The word the writer meant was 哀れ

> If he succeeds, we may stroll through these waning days of spring more aware
> of _aware_

In English, foreign words are often typeset in italics, and this article
follows the convention (although your copypaste did not copy the italics
over.)
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