Nostalgia

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  nostalgia
       n : longing for something past

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  47 Moby Thesaurus words for "nostalgia":
     Heimweh, aching, bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, daydream,
     daydreaming, desiderium, goo, hankering, hearts-and-flowers,
     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