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solastalgia

/ˌsɒləsˈtæld͡ʒə/

solastalgia noun: a form of homesickness experienced when one has not moved, but one's environment has changed.

Noun

solastalgia (uncountable)

  1. A form of homesickness experienced when one has not moved, but one's environment has changed.
    • There are many people writing and talking about extinction now, and about solastalgia, the psychic or existential distress caused by environmental change. Artists, musicians, dancers, and screenwriters are wringing profound solastalgia from the recesses of our collective subconscious and spinning...2010, Albert Bates, The Biochar Solution: Carbon Farming and Climate Change, New Society Publishers, →ISBN
    • Part of what I feel in this city is solastalgia, not so much for buildings as for the routines I established around those buildings: the walk to visit friends in the CBD, the stroll to the cinema.2015, Fiona Farrell, The Villa at the Edge of the Empire, →ISBN, page 342

Origin of solastalgia

Coined by Australian philosopher and researcher Glenn Albrecht in 2005 from Latin sōlācium (“solace, comfort”) + -algia (“pain”).

Questions about solastalgia

What does solastalgia mean?
Solastalgia means a form of homesickness experienced when one has not moved, but one's environment has changed.
What part of speech is solastalgia?
Solastalgia is a noun.
How do you pronounce solastalgia?
Solastalgia is pronounced /ˌsɒləsˈtæld͡ʒə/.

Words near solastalgia in the dictionary

  1. Solas
  2. Solasmance
  3. Solasmancer
  4. solasodine
  5. solasonine
  6. solastalgia
  7. solasterid
  8. solasterids
  9. solasteroside
  10. solasulfone
  11. solate

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