Nostalgia

[Nos*talĀ·gi*a]

Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.

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Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.

Noun
longing for something past


n.
Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.


Nostalgia

Nos*tal"gi*a , n. [NL., fr. Gr. a return home + pain.] (Med.) Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.

Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.

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Usage Examples

There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.

I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.

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Other Usage Examples

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.

I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time.

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