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Meaning of NOSTALGIA

Pronunciation:  nâ'staljeeu

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 Definition: [n]  longing for something past
 
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 See Also: homesickness, longing, yearning

 

 

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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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 Related Terms: 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
 

 

 

 

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