Definitions for nostalgia

nostalgia nos·tal·gia

Spelling: [no-stal-juh, -jee-uh, nuh-]
IPA: /nɒˈstæl dʒə, -dʒi ə, nə-/

Nostalgia is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 610 anagrams from letters in nostalgia (aagilnost).

Definitions for nostalgia

noun

  1. a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time:
  2. something that elicits or displays nostalgia.

Origin of nostalgia

1770-80; New Latin Greek nóst(os) a return home + -algia -algia

Examples for nostalgia

Somehow, sitting in the dusky Tombs didn't seem to help their nostalgia.

De Robertis, an East Village mainstay, closes tomorrow—a moment for nostalgia, but also pragmatism.

The universe is a God in exile who has nostalgia for himself.

Yet her work is all heart, her flights of fancy rich with nostalgia without being mawkish.

The books are not nostalgia, and I would hate for them to be thought of as nostalgia.

In “Back Home,” Gil also revisits the nostalgia for the South explored in his Johns Hopkins thesis, “Circle of Stone.”

Levin rightly disparages the “nostalgia” that he says “blinds” both liberals and conservatives to this new reality.

The feeling was not nostalgia, for that far country was no home for him now.

"I will not," declared the author of nostalgia in the Lobster.

Andr she considered the outcome of this feeling of nostalgia.

Word Value for nostalgia
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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