nostalgia

  • 11nostalgia — ► NOUN ▪ sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past. DERIVATIVES nostalgic adjective nostalgically adverb. ORIGIN originally in the sense «acute homesickness»: from Latin, from Greek nostos return home + algos pain …

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  • 12nostalgia — [nä stal′jə, nôstal′jə] n. [ModL: coined (1688) as a medical term by J. Hofer, Swiss scholar, to transl. Ger heimweh, homesickness < Gr nostos, a return (akin to neomai, I return: see NESTOR) + ALGIA] 1. a longing to go back to one s home,… …

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  • 13Nostalgia — For other uses, see Nostalgia (disambiguation). For the use of the term Nostalgia on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Nostalgia. The term nostalgia describes a yearning for the past, often in idealized form.[1] The word is a learned formation of a Greek… …

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  • 14Nostalgia — En este artículo sobre medicina y psicología se detectaron los siguientes problemas: Necesita ser wikificado conforme a las convenciones de estilo de Wikipedia. Carece de fuentes o referencias que aparezcan en una fuente acreditada. «localismo» n …

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  • 15nostalgia — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ wistful ▪ She remembers her life as a singer with a certain wistful nostalgia. ▪ pure ▪ an evening of pure nostalgia ▪ 80s …

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  • 16nostalgia — no·stal·gì·a s.f. AU stato di tristezza e di rimpianto per la lontananza da persone e luoghi cari o per una situazione passata che si vorrebbe rivivere, che talvolta può evolvere in manifestazioni di carattere patologico: provare nostalgia del… …

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  • 17NOSTALGIA —    A basic subtext of the Western myth is nostalgia for a time in the past when life was somehow better than the present. Early Westerns consciously reminisced about the end of the frontier. But all Westerns look nostalgically to the Western… …

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  • 18nostalgia — (Del gr. nostos, regreso + algos, dolor.) ► sustantivo femenino 1 Sentimiento de cierta tristeza producido por el recuerdo de cosas o personas queridas y, a su vez, ausentes: ■ aún no se ha ido y ya siento nostalgia. SINÓNIMO añoranza morriña… …

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  • 19nostalgia — n. 1) to feel nostalgia 2) nostalgia for * * * [nɒ stældʒə] to feel nostalgia nostalgia for …

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  • 20nostalgia — nos|tal|gia [nɔˈstældʒə US na: ] n [U] [Date: 1700 1800; : Modern Latin; Origin: Greek nostos returning home + algos pain ] a feeling that a time in the past was good, or the activity of remembering a good time in the past and wishing that things …

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