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Is there a Portugese word for sadness stemming from happy memories?

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A bit like 'bittersweet' maybe? I heard it on one the CSI Miami shows.

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  1. "Saudade"?

    'a Galician and Portuguese word for a feeling of nostalgic longing for something or someone that one was fond of and which is lost. It often carries a fatalist tone and a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might really never return.'

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