hew-ZEWN[hyˈzyn]
Pronunciation: Speaker: Veravi95 · CC0 · Wikimedia Commonsthe shared, low-grade sorrow a city carries about with it
Closest in English: melancholy, gloom, wistfulness. None of them covers it.
Turkish borrowed huzn from Arabic, where it is plain sadness, and gave it a postcode. Orhan Pamuk built his book on Istanbul around hüzün: the low light and the ruined villas, a mood the whole city holds at once. English keeps its blues personal.
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One of the easier words so far.
Round two, opposite, was where most points went.
The most common guesses for the translation were 'depression' and 'depressed'. Close, but not it.