Meaning of homesicknesses | Babel Free
Definitions
Noun. [C2]
Examples
“I explore⟳ how women's bodies reflect⟳ homesicknesses — the gendered social and physical illnesses that result⟳ from the production of home.”
“It is well we should be reverent in their presence and homesick for them — but a thousand homesicknesses cannot put⟳ up what Carlyle called "my own⟳ four walls".”
“Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven ; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry⟳ themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know⟳ not that they sob for their parents.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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