〜てならない (unbearable feeling — literary spontaneous emotion)
〜てならない Formality Level: Formal / Literary — literary prose, formal speech, elevated personal expression Classical Origin: ならない derives from the classical copula/auxiliary なる ( naru ) in its negative form. 〜てならない literally means "the state of X cannot become otherwise" — the feeling is so complete and natural that it cannot help but be. This links to the mono no aware (物の哀れ) aesthetic tradition of Heian literature, where feelings were...