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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
nostalgia
n : longing for something past
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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