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dʒənoun
1.
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.
2.
something that elicits or displays nostalgia.
Related forms
nos·tal·gic, adjective
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Example Sentences
- He dismissed nostalgia and sentimentality to focus strictly on music itself.
- If you move frequently enough, you'll lose the nostalgia soon enough.
- Behind the nostalgia lies growing inequality.
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Word Origin & History
nostalgia
1770, "severe homesickness" (considered as a disease), Mod.L. (cf. Fr. nostalgie, 1802), coined 1668 by Johannes Hofer as a rendering of Ger. heimweh, from Gk. nostos "homecoming" + algos "pain, grief, distress" (see -algia). Transferred sense (the main modern one) of "wistful
EXPANDyearning for the past" first recorded 1920.
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nostalgia nos·tal·gia (nŏ-stāl'jə, nə-)
n.
A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past.
The condition of being homesick; homesickness.
nos·tal'gic (-jĭk) adj.
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