What's the difference between costalgia and nostalgia?

Costalgia


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Nostalgia


Definition:

  • (n.) Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ultimately, the judgments combine to make a particularly peculiar melange: among the plaintiffs there is a mix of economic pessimism and insecure nationalism with a shot of nostalgia for the Deutschmark.
  • (2) It's also, clearly, the beginning of an annual TV tradition, a comforting pool of lamplit nostalgia amid all the sequins and celebrity hoo-hah, with Geoffrey Palmer flapping his jowls exasperatedly as he realises he's packed the wrong rectal tube.
  • (3) As I enjoy my individual freedom in South Korea, I don’t really have any nostalgia for North Korea.
  • (4) Breathes has been smoking cannabis for more than half his life, but he has no nostalgia for the old days, no regrets about the industry becoming commercialised.
  • (5) Duran Duran, Phil Collins and the Human League helped Absolute Radio top 4 million listeners across its seven-strong network for the first time, powered by a strong performance by nostalgia station Absolute 80s.
  • (6) She has also impressed the rank and file with her tough talking to the Police Federation, vowing to break its power and bringing to an end its closed-shop practices, sending many Tories of a certain age into ecstasies of Thatcherite nostalgia.
  • (7) In Ethiopia the word for nostalgia is tizita , Wildschut points out, which is also the word for a style of music.
  • (8) As Trump’s dystopia becomes a reality, the nostalgia for his calm, measured and consensual solutions has begun early.
  • (9) 12.21pm BST A-level results always seem to provoke outpourings of nostalgia.
  • (10) Yet, there is no doubt that All Star has been targeted for its specific qualities – the main ones being its feelgood nostalgia value and a laughably exuberant pop-punk style that feels totally earnest.
  • (11) Sentamu came here as a refugee, an asylum seeker, and has a real passion for the underdog, yet in some ways his dream of Britain is closer to the back-to-the-50s nostalgia of Ukip (although not their policies) than to the modern Labour party.
  • (12) The obsession of "For Fatherland and Freedom" to pay public homage to the Latvian-SS Legion in contradiction to all historical logic and sensitivity to Nazi crimes is not a product of ostensibly harmless nostalgia as Pickles would have us believe, but part of a rather insidious plan to gain recognition for a perversely distorted version of European history which will officially equate Communism with Nazism.
  • (13) The anxieties fuelling France’s populism echo those of Geert Wilders and Donald Trump supporters, including “democratic fatigue” and nostalgia for how life supposedly once was.
  • (14) He concludes: "If journalists, for reasons of nostalgia, inertia, confusion or misplaced loyalty, choose to keep swimming with the privacy intruders, they may well drown with them."
  • (15) Nostalgia has had its niche in pop ever since 70s stars such as Showaddywaddy and the late Les Gray of Mud cheerfully recycled the rhythms and quiffs of the 50s.
  • (16) Berman remarked in 2000 that "I confess (and it isn't hard to detect), I am guilty of nostalgia for the 60s, days of my youth."
  • (17) Some express nostalgia for the manicured city centre of the old days.
  • (18) Nostalgia was the soldiers’ malady – a state of mind that made life in the here and now a debilitating process of yearning for that which had been lost: rose-tinted peace, happiness, loved ones.
  • (19) In part, it began as a bit of nostalgia for him – "I did it every Friday night when I was at college.
  • (20) Surely any warm glow we might feel about HMV nostalgia deserves dousing with the news that gift vouchers some bought at the shop over Christmas are now invalid .

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