Home › Words › H › hanahakihanahakihanahaki means A fictional illness in which a person bearing an unrequited love coughs up flower petals until they die or their feelings are reciprocated. The disease can also be cured by a surgical procedure that removes the flowers, but this will result in them losing their feelings of affection and all memories of the person they loved.EtymologyFrom Japanese 花吐き病 (hanahaki-byō), from 花 (hana, “flower”) + 吐く (haku, “to vomit”). An invention of Matsuda Naoko (松田奈緒子) for her manga Hanahaki Otome (『花吐き乙女』).nounA fictional illness in which a person bearing an unrequited love coughs up flower petals until they die or their feelings are reciprocated. The disease can also be cured by a surgical procedure that removes the flowers, but this will result in them losing their feelings of affection and all memories of the person they loved.e.g.“The cascading emotions are giving me hanahaki tonight, they're beautiful but it's suffocating.” — 2019, Unzila Iftikhar, Before Your Eyes - Despite It All, You Still Rise, page 9:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.heartsickness 51% match — The condition of being heartsick vs hanahaki →floramour 44% match — The plant love-lies-bleeding. vs hanahaki →heartsore 44% match — Heartsick. vs hanahaki →amaranth 44% match — An imaginary flower that does not wither. vs hanahaki →anthomania 43% match — An extravagant passion for flowers. vs hanahaki →brokenheartedness 43% match — The quality of being brokenhearted (describes a patient). vs hanahaki →heartsease 42% match — A common European wild flower, Viola tricolor; the wild pansy. vs hanahaki →anthocyanosis 42% match — A purple discolouration of flowers (due to a virus) vs hanahaki →