(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 .
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.