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- Dictionarynostalgia/nɒˈstaldʒ(ɪ)ə/
noun
- 1. a sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past: "I was overcome with acute nostalgia for my days at university"
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Nostalgia is a feeling of pleasure and slight sadness when you think about things that happened in the past. Learn more about the word, its synonyms, and how to use it in sentences from the Cambridge Dictionary.
Nostalgia is a noun that means a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition. It can also mean the state of being homesick or something that evokes nostalgia. See examples, etymology, and related words.
Nostalgia is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. Learn how nostalgia can improve mood, increase social connectedness, enhance positive self-regard, and provide existential meaning, with examples from culture and history.
Nostalgia is an affectionate feeling you have for the past, especially for a particularly happy time. Learn more about its synonyms, origin, examples, and usage in different languages.
Nostalgia is a wistful desire to return to a former time or place, or a sentimental yearning for the happiness of the past. Learn the origin, synonyms, and usage of the word nostalgia with examples from literature and media.
Nostalgic means feeling happy and also slightly sad when you think about things that happened in the past. Learn more about this word, its pronunciation, synonyms, and usage with examples from the Cambridge English Corpus.
nostalgia. 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."
