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nostophobia

nostophobia noun: a fear of, or aversion to, returning to one's home.

Noun

nostophobia (uncountable)

  1. A fear of, or aversion to, returning to one's home.
  2. An aversion to the past, the antithesis of nostalgia.

nostophobia meaning in Tamil

nostophobia in Tamil

கடந்தகால வெருளி, இல்ல வெருளி

Origin of nostophobia

From Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos, “a return home”) + -phobia.

Questions about nostophobia

What does nostophobia mean?
Nostophobia means a fear of, or aversion to, returning to one's home.
What is nostophobia in Tamil?
Nostophobia in Tamil is கடந்தகால வெருளி, இல்ல வெருளி. See Nostophobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is nostophobia?
Nostophobia is a noun.

Words near nostophobia in the dictionary

  1. nostomania
  2. nostopathy
  3. nostopeptin
  4. nostopeptins
  5. nostopeptolide
  6. nostophobia
  7. nostos
  8. nostoxanthin
  9. nostra
  10. nostra culpa
  11. nostra culpas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nostophobia (page history and authors); nostophobia (Tamil 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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