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home-sickness

home-sickness is the alternative form of homesickness.

Meaning of homesickness

Noun

homesickness (countable and uncountable, plural homesicknesses)

  1. The characteristic of being homesick; a strong, sad feeling of missing one's home (and often left-behind loved ones, such as family and friends) when physically away.

Forms of home-sickness

pluralhome-sicknesses

Questions about home-sickness

What is home-sickness the alternative form of?
Home-sickness is the alternative form of homesickness.

Words near home-sickness in the dictionary

  1. home-schooling
  2. home-schools
  3. home-set
  4. home-sets
  5. home-sewn
  6. home-sickness
  7. home-sicknesses
  8. home-sit
  9. home-sits
  10. home-sitting
  11. home-speaking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: home-sickness (page history and authors); homesickness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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