See Also: nostomania(medicine)

illustration (oh) and nostomania (medicine)


illustration (oh)



[C] a picture in a book, article etc, especially one that helps you to understand it
::The book contains 62 pages of illustrations.
[U and C] a story, event, action etc that shows the truth or existence of something very clearly
illustration of
::a striking illustration of 19th century attitudes to women
::For the purposes of illustration, some of the more important symptoms are listed below.
[U] the act or process of illustrating something

nostomania (medicine)


nostomania
<psychiatry> An obsessive or abnormal interest in nostalgia, especially as an extreme manifestation of homesickness.

Origin: G. Nostos, return, homecoming, + mania, frenzy