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 | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | 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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