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nostalgia
/nɑˈstæld͡ʒə/
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What does nostalgia mean?
noun
- A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.
- A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.
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/nɑˈstæld͡ʒə/
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Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.
Swifter in their movements and apparently satisfied with their honeyed thistle-heads, the Spheges, huntresses of Crickets or Ephippigers, die as quickly of nostalgia.
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It is asserted that uneducated people in lonesome, very isolated regions, such as mountain tops, great moors, coast country, are particularly subject to nostalgia.
He fretted, seized with nostalgia that flight only could cure.
Nostalgia is the name generally given to that variety of melancholia in which there is an intense longing for home or country.