'nostalgia' definitions:
Definition of 'nostalgia'
(from WordNet)
noun
Longing for something past
Definition of 'nostalgia'
From: GCIDE
- nostalgia \nos*tal"gi*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a return home + ? pain.]
- 1. (Med.) Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A sentimental yearning to return to an earlier time remembered as happier or more pleasant, or a former place evoking happy memories; a longing to experience again a former happy time; as, a nostalgia for the brotherhood of the Woodstock music festival; a nostalgia for the comradeship of one's college friends. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'nostalgia'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aching,
- bathos,
- bleeding heart,
- cloyingness,
- daydream,
- daydreaming,
- desiderium,
- goo,
- hankering,
- hearts-and-flowers,
- Heimweh,
- homesickness,
- honing,
- languishing,
- languishment,
- longing,
- mal du pays,
- maladie du pays,
- maudlinness,
- mawkishness,
- mush,
- mushiness,
- namby-pamby,
- namby-pambyism,
- namby-pambyness,
- nostomania,
- oversentimentalism,
- oversentimentality,
- pining,
- romanticism,
- sentiment,
- sentimentalism,
- sentimentality,
- slop,
- sloppiness,
- slush,
- soap opera,
- sob story,
- sweetness and light,
- tearjerker,
- wishful thinking,
- wishfulness,
- wistful eye,
- wistfulness,
- yearnfulness,
- yearning,
- yen