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See nostalgía

English

Etymology

From French nostalgie, from νοσταλγία (nostalgia), from Ancient Greek νόστος (nostos) "a return home, travel, journey" + suffix -αλγία (-algia), from άλγος (algos) "pain, grief".

Noun

nostalgia

  1. A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.


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Italian

Noun

nostalgia

  1. nostalgia


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English nostalgia \nos*tal"gi*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a return home + ?
pain.]
1. (Med.) Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal
form of melancholia, due to homesickness.
[1913 Webster]

2. A sentimental yearning to return to an earlier time
remembered as happier or more pleasant, or a former place
evoking happy memories; a longing to experience again a
former happy time; as, a nostalgia for the brotherhood of
the Woodstock music festival; a nostalgia for the
comradeship of one's college friends.
[PJC]
WordNet nostalgia
n : longing for something past
Moby Dictionary
Heimweh
, aching , bathos , bleeding heart , cloyingness , daydream ,
daydreaming
, desiderium , goo , hankering , hearts-and-flowers ,
homesickness
, honing , languishing , languishment , longing ,
mal du pays
, maladie du pays , maudlinness , mawkishness , mush ,
mushiness
, namby-pamby , namby-pambyism , namby-pambyness ,
nostomania
, oversentimentalism , oversentimentality , pining ,
romanticism
, sentiment , sentimentalism , sentimentality , slop ,
sloppiness
, slush , soap opera , sob story , sweetness and light ,
tearjerker
, wishful thinking , wishfulness , wistful eye ,
wistfulness
, yearnfulness , yearning , yen


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