Saudade is a happy, positive remembrance that comforts your sad, negative missing, counterbalancing it.

Saudade is a vague and constant

desire for something that does not

and probably cannot exist,

for something other than the present, a turning towards the past

or towards the future;

not an active discontent or poignant sadness but an indolent

dreaming wistfulness.

Saudade

is to tidy the

bedroom

of a son

who has already

died

(Chico Buarque)

Saudade is a sweet and sorrowful reminiscence

 of persons or things that are far away or are no more,

coupled with a desire to see or posses them again.

Nostalgy is located in the past

and is somewhat conformist

while saudade is very present, anguishing, anxious

and extends into the future.

A British company, in consultation with a thousand linguists, compiled a list of the ten most difficult words to translate.

The list includes, in the seventh place,

the  Portuguese word saudade.