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nostalgia
[ no-stal-juh, -jee-uh, nuh- ]
noun
- a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time:
a nostalgia for his college days.
- something that elicits or displays nostalgia.
nostalgia
/ -dʒɪə; nɒˈstældʒə /
noun
- a yearning for the return of past circumstances, events, etc
- the evocation of this emotion, as in a book, film, etc
- longing for home or family; homesickness
Other Words From
- nos·talgic adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of nostalgia1
Word History and Origins
Origin of nostalgia1
Example Sentences
If hitchhiking stirs your nostalgia, it is probably date-stamped with Sanderson’s era.
To be fair, that “West Wing” episode wasn’t just the whipped topping of liberal nostalgia but the floor-wax of a fundraising effort, as are many of the most memorable cultural products that have come out this season.
Instant Pot spaghetti delivers a saucy dose of nostalgia, with little hands-on effort
Researchers know that reminiscing or having nostalgia about drinking or smoking is one of the major risk factors for relapse.
Bankable nostalgiaFord isn’t afraid to look to the past and trade on nostalgia—take the Ford GT and its entire Mustang line for evidence.
De Robertis, an East Village mainstay, closes tomorrow—a moment for nostalgia, but also pragmatism.
In “Back Home,” Gil also revisits the nostalgia for the South explored in his Johns Hopkins thesis, “Circle of Stone.”
Yet her work is all heart, her flights of fancy rich with nostalgia without being mawkish.
Levin rightly disparages the “nostalgia” that he says “blinds” both liberals and conservatives to this new reality.
The books are not nostalgia, and I would hate for them to be thought of as nostalgia.
He almost felt the old sense of imprisonment, of aching nostalgia, of having lost his liberty.
His trapped feeling increased, and nostalgia began to bore into him.
And so a great nostalgia had come over Shane Campbell on this voyage for the Syrian port and the wife he had married there.
He was not on her plane, but, as he heard her, he for the time believed in its existence and felt a remote nostalgia.
The nostalgia of the boards is a disease your love might not have warded off.
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