Meaning & use
Querencia
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A place where a person or animal feels safe, secure, and instinctively at home, and from which they draw strength.
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The old library had become her querencia, a refuge from the noise of the city.
In the bullring, a bull's querencia is the spot it returns to for a sense of safety.
A note on using this word
Borrowed from Spanish bullfighting terminology, "querencia" has been adopted into English, particularly in psychology and creative writing, to describe an emotional or spiritual home base.
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