Why this word is great
RETROUVAILLES — [Noun] The joy of reuniting with someone after a long separation. From French retrouvailles, literally 'rediscoveries', from retrouver ('to find again, rediscover') + -aille (collective noun suffix). Retrouver derives from Vulgar Latin *retropare, from Latin re- ('again') + tropare ('to discover'). Unlike 'reunion' (a neutral gathering of the formerly apart) or 'homecoming' (a return to place or tribe), retrouvailles thrums with the private electricity of reconnection—the sudden warmth of a childhood friend’s laugh unchanged by decades, the way a mother’s hands still know the shape of your face after years apart, or the silent, weightless moment when two lovers recognize each other in a crowded train station, as if the intervening years were only a pause in the same breath. Joy is the only currency that appreciates with absence.