Meaning of nostalgia | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.
   countable, uncommon, uncountable
2. Nostalgia, homesickness.
3. A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.
   countable, uncountable
4. a longing for past times. She felt a great nostalgia for her childhood. nostalgie حَنين إلى الوَطَن носталгия nostalgia stesk, teskná touha die Nostalgie nostalgi νοσταλγίαnostalgia hõllandus دلتنگى براى nostalgia nostalgieנוסטלגיה घटनाओं की यादें, गृह-विराम, विरह nostalgija, čežnja za domom nosztalgia nostalgia nostalgía, fortíðarþrá nostalgia 郷愁 향수 nostalgija, ilgesys nostalģija; ilgas nostalgia nostalgienostalgi, lengsel tilbake til gamle dagertęsknota, nostalgia بى صبرى لرل nostalgia nost...
5. nostalgies حَنيني إلى الوَطَن носталгичен nostálgico nostalgický nostalgisch nostalgisk νοσταλγικός nostálgico hõllanduslik دلتنگ؛ غريب nostalginen nostalgiqueנוסטלגי गृह विरही nostalgičan honvágytól szenvedő; nosztalgikus rindu nostalgískur, angurvær nostalgico なつかしさにふける 향수의 nostalgiškas, ilgesingas nostalģisks; ilgpilns menimbulkan nostalgia nostalgischnostalgisk, lengtende nostalgiczny زړه ناخوښه nostálgico nostalgic тоскующий по прошлому nostalgický otožen nostalgičan nostalgisk คิดถึงเรื...
6. nostalgies بِحَنِنِيَّةٍ إلى الوَطَن носталгично nostalgicamente nostalgicky nostalgisch nostalgiskt νοσταλγικά nostálgicamente hõllanduslikult با دلتنگی nostalgisesti nostalgiquement בְּנוֹסטַלגִיָה गृह विरही nostalgičan nosztalgikusan penuh kerinduan á nostalgískan/angurværan hátt nostalgicamente なつかしさにふけって 향수를 불러 일으켜 nostalgiškai nostalģiski; ilgpilni secara nostalgia nostalgischnostalgisk, lengtende nostalgicznie په ناخوښى nostalgicamente nostalgic с тоской по прошлому nostalgicky otožno ...
7. nostalgia, tristeza, añoranza.
8. A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past.
9. The condition of being homesick; homesickness.
10. a yearning for the return of past circumstances, events, etc
11. the evocation of this emotion, as in a book, film, etc
12. longing for home or family; homesickness
13. a wistful or sentimental longing for places, things, acquaintances, or conditions belonging to the past.

Equivalents

Examples

“Seeing food at camp similar to his mother's cooking sent a wave of nostalgia through him.”

“I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.”

“an alumnus' feelings of nostalgia for his/her years in high school”

“I can't have been the only person, last week, to feel a rush of nostalgia upon learning that Thames Water had removed a bus-sized, 15-tonne lump of food fat ("mixed with wet wipes") from the sewers under London. The fatberg was an August news story redolent of the old-fashioned silly season.”

“[…]Rousteing asked: “Is my generation’s nostalgia for our turn-of-the-century childhood culture somehow less cool than fashion’s more familiar fixation on the 70s and 80s?” The answer was a firm “no”: in 2020 all nostalgia is good nostalgia. “The nostalgia economy”, as named by Quartz, is the most powerful trend in fashion since florals or trousers and is a reaction to what’s happening in the world.”

“Though there is nothing generationally unique in the desire to bask in the banalities of your past, these nostalgia communities have flourished on Facebook as its user base has grown ever older in the past decade.”

“Yet it continued to be treated as rather suspect. In the mid-20th century, a psychoanalyst called Nandor Fodor dismissed nostalgia, along with utopian politics and even the vogue for Tarzan films, as “the manifestation of a latent desire to return to the womb”.”

“Many of the stations, some of which are request stops, still have their original LSWR buildings. All are now private homes, but it oozes nostalgia (which I like).”

“[Mark] Carney, perhaps the most articulate of those giving voice to this sentiment, vowed he would no longer live in a state of nostalgia, waiting for an old world to return.”

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