Nostalgia

Nostalgia Meanings:

• 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
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /nɒˈstæld͡ʒə/
• (General American) IPA(key): /nɑˈstæld͡ʒə/, /nəˈstæld͡ʒə/, /nɔˈstæld͡ʒə/; /nɑˈstɑld͡ʒə/, /nəˈstɑld͡ʒə/, /nɔˈstɑld͡ʒə/
• (General Australian) IPA(key): /nəˈstæɫd͡ʒə/
• (now uncommon) A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.
• (transferred sense) A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.
• "nostalgia" in Kielitoimiston sanakirja (Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish).
• “nostalgia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
• “nostalgia” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• nostalgia (yearning for the past)
• “nostalgia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• [slang] A remembrance of something that was important to you, something that you loved, something you heard as a infant or a toddler, something that is unforgettable.
• [slang] reminiscent of a time when the world ceased to move around you because you had it all.
• [slang] An endless cycle of longing for the past.
• [slang] The feeling of sadness mixed with tints of happiness. The best and most obscure state of agony you can every ask for. Nostalgia hides within the tears you shed for what you've lost that was once here but has faded away piece by piece. Nostalgia can be how your best friend tells you your childhood has expired. It first is invisible, then slowly it becomes translucent. As time passes by followed by the tears you shed for those people and things you once had but never cherished, nostalgia shows itself, it's reflection imprinted on your tears. When you realise that what you used to love has become nothing but a mere memory. You will never look at a teddy bear the same way you used to. You will no longer go to sleep with your mother's smoochy kisses on your forehead, having an array of soft toys lying on your bed. You will no longer watch your so called "childish" cartoons. And this feeling, when all these thoughts hit you, is the one and only, 'Nostalgia'. This word nostalgia is not merely a word. It is colorful and colourless at the same time. It is empty and wholesome at the same time. Nostalgia is like a colouring book. Once all filled in, then fading away as the marker's colours dry out. Nostalgia itself is vaguer than any word you'd ever be in contact with. Even the longest, most hard to spell words in the dictionary is less ambiguous than the simple word 'Nostalgia'. Nostalgia hurts more than needles but makes you light up a warm smile between the pain it gifts you with.
• [slang] A longing for the good old days, whether or not they were very good. Or: A tendency to think that if you were twenty+ years younger, you would be happy -- as if you actually had been happy when you really were twenty+ years younger.
• [slang] the feeling you get when you listen to the song "fireflies" by owl city, "american idiot" by green day and "how to save a life" by the fray
• [slang] "Nostalgia," comes from nostros (a return home) and algos (a painful condition). So in nostalgia we see a return home to a painful condition. Homesickness
• [slang] The tugging feeling you get when you watch Harry's face as he receives a cake from Hagrid on his eleventh birthday.
• [slang] This is the term used when you are longing to go home i.e you are severely homesick.
• [slang] 2000s songs. Oh,and also very old Android phones/tablets.