nostalgia
noun /nɒˈstældʒə/
/nəˈstældʒə/, /nɑːˈstældʒə/
[uncountable]- a sad feeling mixed with pleasure when you think of happy times in the past
- a sense/wave/pang of nostalgia
- She is filled with nostalgia for her own college days.
Extra Examples- He thought back to his time as a student and felt no nostalgia for any of it.
- I remember it with great nostalgia.
- Nostalgia buffs gathered for the auction of wartime memorabilia.
- She felt great nostalgia for the old way of life.
- She remembers her life as a singer with a certain wistful nostalgia.
- The college reunion was a great nostalgia trip.
- an evening of pure nostalgia
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- wistful
- pure
- 80s
- …
- wave
- feel
- evoke
- indulge in
- …
- buff
- trip
- with nostalgia
- nostalgia for
- a feeling of nostalgia
- a sense of nostalgia
Word Originlate 18th cent. (in the sense ‘acute homesickness’): modern Latin (translating German Heimweh ‘homesickness’), from Greek nostos ‘return home’ + algos ‘pain’.