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homesickness

homesickness noun: 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.

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.

homesickness meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

homesickness in Hindi

missing one's home or family
ग़ुरबत ġurbat

homesickness in Tamil

வீட்டு நினைவு

homesickness in Urdu

گھر کی یاد

homesickness in Kannada

ಮನೆಗೀಳು, ಮನೆಹಂಬಲ
More languagesFewer languages
homesickness in Tagalog
pagkahidlaw, kahidlawan
homesickness in Arabic
حَنِين ḥanīn, اِشْتِيَاق ištiyāq
homesickness in Persian
غربت ġorbat
homesickness in Thai
อาการคิดถึงบ้าน

Forms of homesickness

pluralhomesicknesses
alternative formhome-sickness

Origin of homesickness

Calque of German Heimweh (“homesickness”, literally “home-woe”), equivalent to home + sickness.

Words formed from homesickness

Questions about homesickness

What does homesickness mean?
Homesickness means 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.
What is homesickness in Hindi?
Homesickness in Hindi is ग़ुरबत (ġurbat). See Homesickness meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is homesickness?
Homesickness is a noun.
What is the plural of homesickness?
The plural of homesickness is homesicknesses.

Words near homesickness in the dictionary

  1. homeshares
  2. homesharing
  3. homeshoring
  4. homesick
  5. homesickly
  6. homesickness
  7. homesicknesses
  8. homesign
  9. homesigner
  10. homesigners
  11. homesigns

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: homesickness (page history and authors); homesickness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); homesickness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); homesickness (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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