Meaning of hanahaki | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

Japanese, uncountable

Examples

“The cascading emotions are giving me hanahaki tonight, they're beautiful but it's suffocating.”

“It is familiar. In that most everyone is familiar with a coffee shop and thus understands the AU’s basic premise on sight. Unlike, say, Hanahaki fics.”

“However, to a hanahaki patient, it's probably far more terrifying for them to have the surgery to cure their feelings than the disease.”

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