Nostalgia vs. Nostalgy

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.

Nostalgynoun

Same as Nostalgia.