nəˈstalj(ē)ə, näˈ- sometimes nōˈ- or nȯˈ- or -täl- noun
( -s )
Etymology: New Latin (translation of German heimweh ), from Greek nostos return home + New Latin -algia; akin to Old English genesan to survive, Old High German gi nesan to survive, Gothic ganisan to get well, be saved, Sanskrit nasate he approaches, joins
1.
a. archaic : a severe melancholia caused by protracted absence from home or native place
b. : homesickness
2. : a wistful or excessively sentimental sometimes abnormal yearning for return to or return of some real or romanticized period or irrecoverable condition or setting in the past
nostalgia for his more impressionable youth
felt a sudden pang of nostalgia for German music
• nos·tal·gic nəˈstaljik, (ˈ)nä|s-, -jēk sometimes (ˈ)nȯ|s or (ˈ)nō|s- or -täl- adjective or noun
• nos·tal·gi·cal·ly -jə̇k(ə)lē, -jēk-, -li adverb