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Synonyms for nostalgia

Grammar : Noun
Spell : no-stal-juh, -jee-uh, nuh-
Phonetic Transcription : nɒˈstæl dʒə, -dʒi ə, nə-

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Définition of nostalgia

Origin :
  • 1770, "severe homesickness" (considered as a disease), Modern Latin (cf. French nostalgie, 1802), coined 1668 by Johannes Hofer, as a rendering of German heimweh, from Greek algos "pain, grief, distress" (see -algia) + nostos "homecoming," from PIE *nes- "to return safely home" (cf. Old Norse nest "food for a journey," Sanskrit nasate "approaches, joins," German genesen "to recover," Gothic ganisan "to heal," Old English genesen "to recover"). Transferred sense (the main modern one) of "wistful yearning for the past" first recorded 1920.
  • noun pleasant remembrances
Example sentences :
  • The universe is a God in exile who has nostalgia for himself.
  • Extract from : « Initiation into Philosophy » by Emile Faguet
  • The feeling was not nostalgia, for that far country was no home for him now.
  • Extract from : « The Vagrant Duke » by George Gibbs
  • Somehow, sitting in the dusky Tombs didn't seem to help their Nostalgia.
  • Extract from : « Ade's Fables » by George Ade
  • "I will not," declared the author of Nostalgia in the Lobster.
  • Extract from : « How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee » by Owen Wister
  • Andr she considered the outcome of this feeling of nostalgia.
  • Extract from : « Famous Women: George Sand » by Bertha Thomas
  • Somebody had passed her, speaking German, and she was overwhelmed by a rush of nostalgia.
  • Extract from : « Tatterdemalion » by John Galsworthy
  • His trapped feeling increased, and nostalgia began to bore into him.
  • Extract from : « The Planet Strappers » by Raymond Zinke Gallun
  • At the moment some preoccupation, a nostalgia or a regret, contracted the angle of her mouth.
  • Extract from : « The Monster » by Edgar Saltus
  • Most of these emigrants, moreover, suffered from the nostalgia which is characteristic of the Swiss.
  • Extract from : « Lausanne » by Francis Henry Gribble
  • It was a kind of nostalgia for Paris, the quartier latin, her clean old trade.
  • Extract from : « Trilby » by George Du Maurier

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