What's the difference between homesick and wistful?

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 .

Wistful


Definition:

  • (a.) Longing; wishful; desirous.
  • (a.) Full of thought; eagerly attentive; meditative; musing; pensive; contemplative.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One radio critic described Jacobs' late night Sunday show as a "tidying-up time, a time for wistfulness, melancholy, a recognition that there were once great things and great feelings in this world.
  • (2) I can't pull an invisibility cloak over my house – nor would I wish to," she said, a little wistfully, as if she really wished she had Harry Potter's magic powers.
  • (3) The age-courses of concentrations of reduced (GSH) and oxidized (GSSG) glutathione, of GSH synthesizing enzyme activities, of glutathione S-transferase (GST), of GSSG-reductase (GR) and of biliary GSH and GSSG export were measured in livers from male Uje:WIST rats.
  • (4) – but Russell happily slips in and out of voices and lines from the movie, his recollections punctuated by wistful sighs.
  • (5) The former Internazionale owner Massimo Moratti has been staring wistfully into the distance and wonder what might have been if he had not dished his dosh on the Special One rather than mere players.
  • (6) Shareholders may be forgiven for thinking wistfully of the £55 which Pfizer offered to pay for each of their shiny shares.
  • (7) Jeremy Corbyn still speaks about it wistfully – a rally in Glasgow’s Old Fruitmarket that turned into one of the most emotional moments of his leadership campaign.
  • (8) Softness and tenderness, wistful ironies” he conceded as blindspots, describing Motown as mere “foot fodder” but having a lot of time for relatively minor practitioners such as Joe Tex , who he saw as “hugely smug” but with “great charm and inventiveness”.
  • (9) Every now and then I get wistful for when I was just a consumer of games because I can never have that back, but fortunately the love of the work is strong enough that I’m okay with that, and I’ve played so many life-changing games because I’m seeking them through the lens of a developer.
  • (10) The antiarrhythmic effects and pharmacodynamics of tobanum were evaluated in 28 patients wist paroxysms of reciprocal atrioventricular tachycardia, by using transesophageal cardiac pacing.
  • (11) After the jet-black high school satire Heathers pulled the rug out from under John Hughes and his oversharing Brat Pack, in 1989, American adolescents were left with few offerings, most of them wistful odes to another age – either stylistically, as with the overblown, pirate-radio-themed Christian Slater vehicle Pump Up the Volume; or quite literally, in the case of Richard Linklater’s nostalgia-fuelled 70s pastiche, Dazed and Confused.
  • (12) We are sitting in a boardroom on the seventh floor of the new Birmingham library , the glass walls allowing us a view of a city draped in mist, a sharp contrast to the "paradise" of Swat, with its tall mountains and clear rivers which Malala recalls wistfully.
  • (13) "Oh, it was lovely," said the retired factory worker, 61, as he smiled wistfully in the bright sunshine.
  • (14) The subjects (N = 30) were grouped into high and low levels of thought dysfunction, as measured by the Whitaker Index of Schizophrenic Thinking (WIST).
  • (15) Recently an individually administered instrument (WIST) was introduced as a brief, objective, and quantitative measure of schizophrenic thought processes.
  • (16) There's one aspect of his former life he misses: "The sweat," he sighs wistfully.
  • (17) [Small Talk thinks back wistfully to a time when ice creams were bigger, Liverpool were challenging for the league, Glenn Medeiros was top of the charts…] So you caught the cycling bug?
  • (18) Ss were administered a conjunctive, disjunctive, conditional or biconditional rule learning task, WIST, and Shipley-Hartford Memory Scale.
  • (19) It is now possible to separate wistful thinking from reality.
  • (20) It was with a mixture of wistfulness and his usual forthright bullishness that Sam Allardyce, briefly moving his attention away from the 21st-century football that West Ham United intend to confront Chelsea with on Friday afternoon, looked back eight years and contemplated what he might have achieved in his final season at Bolton Wanderers if he had received greater financial backing – or, to be precise, any financial backing – when his team were hovering around the Champions League places at Christmas.

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