NOSTALGIA

noun Etymology: New Latin, from Greek nostos return home + New Latin -algia; akin to Greek neisthai to return, Old English genesan to survive, Sanskrit nasate he approaches Date: 1756 the state of being homesick ; homesickness, a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition, nostalgic adjective or noun nostalgically adverb nostalgist noun