See Also: nostalgia(medicine)
nostalgia(dictionary)
nostalgia(dictionary)

nostalgia (iou)



nostalgia noun. L18.
[mod. Latin (translating German Heimweh homesickness), from Greek NOSTOS + algos pain: see -IA1.]
Acute longing for familiar surroundings; severe homesickness. L18.
Regret or sentimental longing for the conditions of a period of the (usu. recent) past; (a) regretful or wistful memory or imagining of an earlier time. E20.
A. Toffler This reversion to pre-scientific attitudes is accompanied..by a tremendous wave of nostalgia. Country Life Nostalgia for a world..of Norfolk jackets, muttonchop whiskers, penny-farthing bicycles. A. Brookner She alone remembers her father..with nostalgia for his benevolent if abstracted presence.
b. Cause for nostalgia; objects evoking nostalgia collectively. L20.
P. de Vries Her potato bread was sheer mouth-watering nostalgia.
Also nostalgy noun (rare) M19.