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nostalgy

nostalgy is the archaic form of nostalgia.

Meaning of nostalgia

Noun

nostalgia (countable and uncountable, plural nostalgias)

  1. (uncommon) A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.
    • Seeing food at camp similar to his mother's cooking sent a wave of nostalgia through him.
  2. (transferred sense) A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.
    • an alumnus' feelings of nostalgia for his/her years in high school

Forms of nostalgy

pluralnostalgies

Questions about nostalgy

What is nostalgy the archaic form of?
Nostalgy is the archaic form of nostalgia.

Words near nostalgy in the dictionary

  1. nostalgists
  2. nostalgize
  3. nostalgized
  4. nostalgizes
  5. nostalgizing
  6. nostalgy
  7. Nostell
  8. nostepinde
  9. nostepindes
  10. nostepinne
  11. nostepinnes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nostalgy (page history and authors); nostalgia (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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