nostalgia

• nostalgy (archaic)

From New Latin nostalgia, coined by Johannes Hofer in 1688 from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos, “returning home”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”), calquing German Heimweh.^[1] Ancient Greek *νοσταλγία (*nostalgía) is unattested. Transferred sense probably influenced by French nostalgie, especially in literature.^[2]

Compare Italian nostalgia, Spanish nostalgia, Portuguese nostalgia and French nostalgie.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /nɒˈstæld͡ʒə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /nɑˈstæld͡ʒə/, /nəˈstæld͡ʒə/, /nɔˈstæld͡ʒə/; /nɑˈstɑld͡ʒə/, /nəˈstɑld͡ʒə/, /nɔˈstɑld͡ʒə/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /nəˈstæɫd͡ʒə/

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nostalgia (countable and uncountable, plural nostalgias)

1. (now uncommon) A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness. [from 18th c.]
   • 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter L, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

     I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.

2. (transferred sense) A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past. [from 20th c.]
   • 2013 August 16, Oliver Burkeman, “This is the cutest article”, in The Guardian Weekly‎^[1], volume 189, number 10, page 20:

     I can't have been the only person, last week, to feel a rush of nostalgia upon learning that Thames Water had removed a bus-sized, 15-tonne lump of food fat ("mixed with wet wipes") from the sewers under London. The fatberg was an August news story redolent of the old-fashioned silly season.

   • 2020 September 9, Priya Elan, “Now-stalgia: why fashion is going back to the future”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     […] Rousteing asked: “Is my generation’s nostalgia for our turn-of-the-century childhood culture somehow less cool than fashion’s more familiar fixation on the 70s and 80s?” The answer was a firm “no”: in 2020 all nostalgia is good nostalgia. “The nostalgia economy”, as named by Quartz, is the most powerful trend in fashion since florals or trousers and is a reaction to what’s happening in the world.

   • 2022 November 15, Dan Hancox, “‘Who remembers proper binmen?’ The nostalgia memes that help explain Britain today”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

     Though there is nothing generationally unique in the desire to bask in the banalities of your past, these nostalgia communities have flourished on Facebook as its user base has grown ever older in the past decade.

   • 2024 May 21, Matthew Reisz, “Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion by Agnes Arnold-Foster review – the past isn’t a foreign place”, in The Guardian‎^[4], →ISSN:

     Yet it continued to be treated as rather suspect. In the mid-20th century, a psychoanalyst called Nandor Fodor dismissed nostalgia, along with utopian politics and even the vogue for Tarzan films, as “the manifestation of a latent desire to return to the womb”.

• nostopathy
• nostophobia

• nostalgie de la boue
• solastalgia
• technostalgia
• Eastalgia
• fauxstalgia

• halcyon days
• hark back
• memory lane
• reminiscence
• anemoia

• analogist, antigoals, galtonias

From New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos, “returning home”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnostɑlɡiɑ/, [ˈno̞s̠tɑ̝lˌɡiɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): nos‧tal‧gi‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): nos‧tal‧gia

nostalgia

1. nostalgia

• nostalgikko
• nostalginen
• nostalgisoida

• “nostalgia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[5] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

Borrowed from English nostalgia.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /nostalˈɡia/ [nos.t̪alˈɡi.a]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: nos‧tal‧gi‧a

nostalgia (plural nostalgia-nostalgia)

1. nostalgia

• “nostalgia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos, “returning home”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”).

• IPA^(key): /nos.talˈd͡ʒi.a/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: no‧stal‧gì‧a

nostalgia f (plural nostalgie)

1. nostalgia, homesickness, longing

• nostalgico

• angolasti, losangati, stagliano

Borrowed from English nostalgia.

• (Baku) IPA^(key): /nosˈtalɡja/ [nosˈt̪al.ɡja]
  • Rhymes: -alɡja

• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /nosˈtald͡ʒja/ [nosˈt̪al.d͡ʒja] (English-based)
  • Rhymes: -ald͡ʒja
• Hyphenation: nos‧tal‧gia

nostalgia (Jawi spelling نوستلݢيا, plural nostalgia-nostalgia)

1. nostalgia

• “nostalgia” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Borrowed from French nostalgie, from New Latin nostalgia, from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos) + ἄλγος (álgos).

• IPA^(key): /nɔsˈtal.ɡja/

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• Rhymes: -alɡja
• Syllabification: nos‧tal‧gia

nostalgia f

1. nostalgia (yearning for the past)

• nostalgia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• nostalgia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos, “returning home”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”).

Cognate with Galician nostalxia.

• Hyphenation: nos‧tal‧gi‧a

nostalgia f (plural nostalgias)

1. nostalgia (yearning for the past)

Borrowed from New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos, “returning home”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”).

• IPA^(key): /nosˈtalxja/ [nosˈt̪al.xja]
• Rhymes: -alxja
• Syllabification: nos‧tal‧gia

nostalgia f (plural nostalgias)

1. nostalgia

   Synonym: añoranza

• “nostalgia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024