Nostalgia
[nɒ'stældʒə] or [nə'stældʒə]
Definition
(n.) Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. (Med.) Homesickness.
Editor: Woodrow
Definition
n. home-sickness esp. when morbid.—adj. Nostal′gic.
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Examples
- It fascinated her with the fascination of pure beauty, cast a spell on her, like nostalgia, an ache. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And yet, she was overcome by the nostalgia. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- That must be the odor of nostalgia, the smell of the smoke from the piles of raked leaves burning in the streets in the fall in Missoula. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But in his pale, elegant, serious face there showed the same nostalgia that Gudrun felt. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There came over her a nostalgia for the place. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She knew it was a vulgar thing to do; her father and mother could not bear it; but the nostalgia came over her, she must be among the people. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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