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ˈhome-sickness, homesickness
[f. home n. + sickness: app. at first a rendering of Ger. (Swiss) heimweh.]
A depressed state of mind and body caused by a longing for home during absence from it; nostalgia.
1756tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) I. 174 The heimweh, i.e. ‘homesickness’ with which those of Bern are especially afflicted. 1775–83Thacher Mil. Journ. (1826) 242 Cases of indisposition caused by absence from home, called by Dr. Cullen Nostalgia or home-sickness. c1798Coleridge Home-Sick iv, (Written in Germany) Home-sickness is a wasting pang. 1805W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. III. 235 A cat is as subject as a mountaineer to the home-sickness. 18..Kingsley in Life I. 3 (D.), I have..continually the true ‘heimweh’ home-sickness of the Swiss and Highlanders. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Eur. i. (1894) 1 Symptomatic of the proverbial homesickness of mountaineers. |