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noun
1. a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time: a nostalgia for his college days. Origin:
1770–80; < Neo-Latin < Greek nós
t ( os ) a return home + -algia -algia
Related forms
nos·tal·gic, adjective
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012. Word Origin & History
nostalgia
1770, "severe homesickness" (considered as a disease), Mod.L. nostalgie, 1802), coined 1668 by Johannes Hofer as a rendering of Ger. nostos "homecoming" + algos "pain, grief, distress" (see -algia). Transferred sense (the main modern one) of "wistful
yearning for the past" first recorded 1920. Medical Dictionary
nos·tal·gia definition
Pronunciation: /nä-ˈstal-jə, nə-, nȯ-; nə-ˈstäl-/
Function: n
1 : the state of being homesick
2 : a wistful or excessively sentimental sometimes abnormal yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition
nos·tal·gic Pronunciation: /-jik/
Function: adj
nos·tal·gi·cal·ly Pronunciation: /-ji-k(ə-)lē/
Function: adv
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American Heritage
nostalgia nos·tal·gia (nŏ-stāl'jə, nə-)
n. A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past. The condition of being homesick; homesickness. nos·tal'gic (-jĭk) adj. The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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