ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ adjective
Etymology: back-formation from homesickness
1. : longing for home and family while absent from them
the boy was homesick his first week at camp
2. : yearning for a familiar or sympathetic environment
that stretch of blue water was the one thing he was homesick for — Willa Cather
homesick for their comparatively carefree nineteenth-century past — A.J.Toynbee