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- DictionaryNos·tal·gia/nəˈstaljə/
noun
- 1. a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations: "I was overcome with acute nostalgia for my days in college"
The meaning of NOSTALGIA is a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition; also : something that evokes nostalgia. How to use nostalgia in a sentence.
a feeling of pleasure and also slight sadness when you think about things that happened in the past: Some people feel nostalgia for their schooldays. Hearing that song again filled him with nostalgia. a wave (= sudden strong feeling) of nostalgia. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Memory and memories. abiding memory. associative memory.
Nostalgia definition: 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.
Nostalgia is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.
NOSTALGIA definition: 1. a feeling of pleasure and also slight sadness when you think about things that happened in the…. Learn more.
Think of the noun nostalgia when you long for the good old days of the past. The noun nostalgia was invented by a Swiss doctor in the late 1600s. He put together the Greek nostos "homecoming" and algos "pain, distress" as a literal translation of the German Heimweh "homesickness."
The meaning of NOSTALGIC is feeling or inspiring nostalgia. How to use nostalgic in a sentence.
a sad feeling mixed with pleasure when you think of happy times in the past. She is filled with nostalgia for her own college days. Definition of nostalgia noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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. 2. something that elicits or displays nostalgia.
NOSTALGIA meaning: pleasure and sadness that is caused by remembering something from the past and wishing that you could experience it again.
