ModL: coined (1688) as a medical term by J. Hofer, Swiss scholar, to transl. Ger heimweh, homesickness < Gr nostos, a return (akin to neomai, I return: see Nestor) + -algia
Examples of 'nostalgia' in a sentence
nostalgia
Get ready for one big nostalgia trip.
The Sun (2016)
He has no time for nostalgia or golf.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
They also evoke nostalgia for a quintessential British lifestyle.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Can we justify a nostalgia for the days of the mavericks?
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It evokes a melancholy nostalgia that is hard to capture.
The Sun (2015)
Now there is a lot of nostalgia for the times of the monarchy.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The company draw a surprising amount of comic mileage from this shallow nostalgia trip.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Nostalgia for glamorous times gone by is evident in most of the fashionable ranges.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Not that the banners themselves are in any way a nostalgia trip.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Yet the film offers something richer than teary middle-aged male nostalgia for the happy days of childhood.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
This is a popular poem probably because it evokes a deep nostalgia for rural England.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
With solid tunes and great song construction, this is not simply a nostalgia trip.
The Sun (2014)
It plays perfectly, evokes nostalgia and will keep you attached for a few hours at a time.
The Sun (2007)
Who was the king who sold off his treasures recently, saying he had no time for nostalgia?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The lover of eclectic interiors has a nostalgia for the past and spends a lot of time collecting memorabilia of all kinds to display.
Churchill, Jane (ed.) Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings (1993)
I am bathed in love and nostalgia, of longings and such memories.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
It means longing, nostalgia, homesickness.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
If you've drawn him or her on the left side of you, it suggests nostalgia for the past.
The Sun (2014)
A rum kind of nostalgia for the past, extending far back to a time before the person who feels it was born.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
In short, we need our ambition for the future to overcome our nostalgia for the past: we need confidence.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
By the turn of the century, gardens had become symbols of longing, nostalgia and a desire to return to simpler times.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Friends from the past who you haven't seen in ages may turn up today and the sense of happy nostalgia you'll feel will be overwhelming.
The Sun (2015)
Quotations
Nostalgia isn't what it used to beAnon.
In other languages
nostalgia
British English: nostalgia NOUN
Nostalgia is an affectionate feeling you have for the past.
He might be influenced by nostalgia for his happy youth.
American English: nostalgia
Brazilian Portuguese: nostalgia
Chinese: > 怀旧尤指对幸福时光的
European Spanish: nostalgia
French: nostalgie
German: Nostalgie
Italian: nostalgia
Japanese: 郷愁
Korean: 향수
European Portuguese: nostalgia
Latin American Spanish: nostalgia
Chinese translation of 'nostalgia'
nostalgia
(nɔsˈtældʒɪə)
n(u)
怀(懷)旧(舊) (huáijiù)
nostalgia for sth对(對)某事物的怀(懷)恋(戀) (duì mǒushìwù de huáiliàn)
(noun)
Definition
a sentimental yearning for the past
He felt a wave of nostalgia for the life he had left behind him.
Synonyms
reminiscence
longing
He felt a longing for the familiar.
regret
pining
yearning
He spoke of his yearning for another child.
remembrance
He had clung to the remembrance of things past.
homesickness
wistfulness
regretfulness
Quotation
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be [Anon.]
Additional synonyms
in the sense of longing
Definition
a strong feeling of wanting something one is unlikely ever to have