solastalgia

Definitions

A form of homesickness experienced when one has not moved, but one's environment has changed.

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Examples

“There are many people writing and talking about extinction now, and about solastalgia, the psychic or existential distress caused by environmental change⟳. Artists, musicians, dancers, and screenwriters are wringing profound solastalgia from the recesses of our collective subconscious and spinning its trajectory out into the light⟳ where we can get⟳ a better sense⟳ of it.”

“Part of what I feel⟳ in this city is solastalgia, not so much for buildings as for the routines I established around those buildings: the walk⟳ to visit⟳ friends in the CBD, the stroll to the cinema.”

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