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nostalgise

nostalgise is the alternative form of nostalgize.

Meaning of nostalgize

Verb

nostalgize (third-person singular simple present nostalgizes, present participle nostalgizing, simple past and past participle nostalgized)

  1. (transitive) To treat nostalgically.
  2. (intransitive) To revel in nostalgia.
    • Appropriately enough for a crowd hung up on the fashions and music of the past, the nostalgizing began almost immediately.2007 September 10, Melena Ryzik, “The Last Night of Misshapes: Hip, Post-New-Wave and Through”, in New York Times

Forms of nostalgise

third-person singular presentnostalgises
present participlenostalgising
past participlenostalgised
pastnostalgised

Origin of nostalgise

From nostalgia + -ise.

Questions about nostalgise

What is nostalgise the alternative form of?
Nostalgise is the alternative form of nostalgize.

Words near nostalgise in the dictionary

  1. nostalgic
  2. nostalgically
  3. nostalgics
  4. nostalgie de la boue
  5. nostalgies
  6. nostalgise
  7. nostalgised
  8. nostalgises
  9. nostalgising
  10. nostalgism
  11. nostalgist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nostalgise (page history and authors); nostalgize (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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