Nostalgia vs. Nostalgy — Which is Correct Spelling?
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Which is correct: Nostalgia or Nostalgy
How to spell Nostalgia?
Nostalgia
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Nostalgy
Incorrect Spelling
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Nostalgia Definitions
Nostalgia is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. The word nostalgia is learned formation of a Greek compound, consisting of νόστος (nóstos), meaning "homecoming", a Homeric word, and ἄλγος (álgos), meaning "pain" or "ache", and was coined by a 17th-century medical student to describe the anxieties displayed by Swiss mercenaries fighting away from home.
A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past.
The condition of being homesick; homesickness.
A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.
(transferred sense) A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.
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Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.
A sentimental yearning to return to an earlier time remembered as happier or more pleasant, or a former place evoking happy memories; a longing to experience again a former happy time; as, a nostalgia for the brotherhood of the Woodstock music festival; a nostalgia for the comradeship of one's college friends.
Longing for something past
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