Nostalgia vs. Nostalgic

Nostalgianoun

A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.

Nostalgianoun

A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.

Nostalgianoun

Reminiscence of the speaker's childhood or younger years.

Nostalgianoun

Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.

Nostalgianoun

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.

Nostalgianoun

longing for something past

Nostalgia

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 , a Homeric word, and ἄλγος (álgos), meaning or , and was coined by a 17th-century medical student to describe the anxieties displayed by Swiss mercenaries fighting away from home.

Nostalgicadjective

Of, having, or relating to nostalgia.

Nostalgicadjective

Reminiscent of the speaker's childhood or younger years.

Nostalgicnoun

A person who displays nostalgia for something.

Nostalgicadjective

Of or pertaining to nostalgia; affected with nostalgia.

Nostalgicadjective

unhappy at being away and longing for familiar things or persons