melancholy, sentimentality, ruefulness, pathos, plaintiveness, romanticism, wryness, hopefulness, dreaminess, nostalgia, pensiveness, poignancy, mawkishness, languor, playfulness, poeticism, soulfulness, elegiac, sunniness, ennui, whimsy, moroseness, sadness, jauntiness, melancholia, joyousness, facetiousness, mellowness, reveries, poignance, longing, strangeness, fatalism, lyricism, mournfulness, breeziness, inwardness, tunefulness, knowingness, worldliness, theatricality, somberness, archness, sweetness, rawness, nasality, ingenuousness, girlishness, winsomeness, ethereality, lushness, affectless, maudlin, profundity, brassiness, sullenness, blankness, melody, sappiness, awkwardness, mushiness, evocation, melodiousness, despondence, yearning, quaver, bathos, tonalities, reminiscence, lugubriousness, cheeriness, insouciance, weariness, torchy, placidity, drollness, triteness, cynicism, dolorous, incredulousness, sublimity, lucidity, gawkiness, aimlessness, jadedness, peevishness, sultriness, angst, chromaticism, lightheartedness, exuberance, lonesomeness, rubato, sentimentalism, tinges, ambivalence, diffidence, sombreness, naivete, oddness, acerbity, whimsicality, bewilderment, gladness, wonderment, earnestness, despair, entreaty, thoughtfulness, joy, exaltation, hankering

longing, yearning