What's the difference between homesick and nostalgic?

Homesick


Definition:

  • (a.) Pining for home; in a nostalgic condition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I think I'm going to be a little bit homesick for it actually," the 23-year-old said.
  • (2) Ilya Zhegulyov, a Russian journalist with Forbes, said Berezovsky had shown signs of his fragile mental state and homesickness in an interview the day before his death.
  • (3) Homesick, sore, and 1,000 miles away from his family, Li cried himself to sleep at night.
  • (4) These subjects had higher levels of psychological disturbance and cognitive failure than non-homesick subjects.
  • (5) In my first year it all came crashing down – the homesickness hit me, the daily practicalities of living in a new place and making friends all seemed so hard.
  • (6) One area that produced significant differences between the two groups was the 'feeling of homesickness', which produced greater distress among overseas students.
  • (7) I always get so scared before I go and film a movie because I know I'm going to   get homesick."
  • (8) Although there were no differences between resident and home-based students in this respect, those who reported homesickness were distinguished from the remainder in terms of higher levels of psychological disturbance and cognitive failure following the transition to university.
  • (9) Camp nurses are in a unique position to assist in the study of homesickness because they are living the situation.
  • (10) In 1947 she succumbed to her parents' pressure to join them in Canada and spent three stormy years there, homesick not for people but for London.
  • (11) However, friends of Berezovksy in the UK were skeptical about the extent of his homesickness and expressed doubts over the authenticity of the Forbes interview.
  • (12) Psychopathology of intense homesickness, prejudices and other factors which prevent from adequate integration in a new environmental setting were delineated as well as prophylactic-psychosocial and therapeutic procedures.
  • (13) In my first year, I went home every two months and at Christmas for the whole month, because I was homesick and didn’t have many friends.
  • (14) Jetlagged and homesick, I was wary of this hipsterish-looking film with its Instagrammy filters and moustaches.
  • (15) But he likes to attribute his return at least as much to homesickness as to pragmatism.
  • (16) I once read a science-fiction story in which astronauts voyaging to a distant star were waxing homesick: "Just to think that it's springtime back on Earth!"
  • (17) Self-reports of homesickness and anxiety were higher in the experimental group 2-3 months after writing.
  • (18) There were no sex differences in homesickness reporting.
  • (19) So each autumn Sedikides and Wildschut are happily presented with a new cohort of the homesick and the displaced to help them with their research.
  • (20) Mannuel Ferreira Thinking about the queues at South African elections makes me homesick .

Nostalgic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to nostalgia; affected with nostalgia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I must also accept that Cameron recruits the best and the brightest, who just happen to be his schoolmates, and that education should be overhauled by a nostalgic zealot who has never taught and dismisses evidence.
  • (2) Then there were American imperialists, Turkish nostalgics for the Ottoman days and Iranians ambitious for Islamic terrorism in the Balkans.
  • (3) For a minute or two they get all nostalgic for last year’s showstopper high points.
  • (4) Yet ice cream does do something funny to a lot of us: it makes us nostalgic and happy and, if you take your cues from Bridget Jones, it helps us recover from heartbreak.
  • (5) Asked if he felt nostalgic, Obama replied: “Of course.” With those two words and his last presidential words immortalised on the web, he was out.
  • (6) "[They] actually made me feel nostalgic for Billy Crystal, something I didn't think was possible," he wrote.
  • (7) Hey, I say, when I look at this record it makes me feel nostalgic for my youth, and I didn't even write the songs, so God knows what it does for you.
  • (8) and a mother showing off her own placenta almost make one nostalgic for the days of annual round-robin newsletters.
  • (9) Even the HMC , mouthpiece of the independent sector, is reported to have spoken out against a "knee-jerk return to the nostalgic golden age of O-levels".
  • (10) Reuters Photograph: Reuters “I think one of the strengths of nostalgia is that even if they have not had a good childhood, most people have at least one nostalgic memory that they cherish and that they can use repeatedly.
  • (11) In one experiment, subjects in whom nostalgia had been induced were asked to set up a room for a meeting – those in a nostalgic frame of mind consistently set up the chairs closer than those in the control.
  • (12) To those critics who will accuse him of romanticism and nostalgia, his defiant reply is the first page of the introduction: things were better in the past, and it's not nostalgic to say so.
  • (13) "Union Jacks is all about bringing back nostalgic British classics using the best of artisanal ingredients.
  • (14) The line from New Labour nostalgics that “we won three elections” misses the point for millions.
  • (15) Adepitan has just made a powerful programme about polio in Nigeria, and it has left him both angry and nostalgic.
  • (16) (For Wilson's character, who romanticises that era, it's a dream come true – but the Parisians of the 20s are themselves nostalgic for the 1890s.
  • (17) In another experiment, those in nostalgic moods were asked to write essays, which were compared in a blind judging process with those of peers who’d had no induced feelings of nostalgia.
  • (18) When Ikea closes in the near future (as, please God, it will), will I be tweeting my nostalgic feelings about its contribution to extending allen keys and misery worldwide?
  • (19) On the left, some people seem nostalgic for the 1970s; on the right, eyes mist over at the mention of the 1990s.
  • (20) Nor does last month’s Singapore race fill the British driver with a nostalgic glow.

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