About The Word Nostalgia

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Nostalgia

Nostalgia Meaning & Definition
Nostalgia Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Nostalgia?

[n] longing for something past

Synonyms | Synonyms for Nostalgia:

Related Terms | Find terms related to Nostalgia: aching | bathos | bleeding heart | cloyingness | daydream | daydreaming | desiderium | goo | hankering | hearts-and-flowers | Heimweh | 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

See Also | homesickness | longing | yearning

Nostalgia In Webster's Dictionary

\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.

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