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Nostalgic

adj, noun

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Adjective

1
Of, having, or relating to nostalgia.
"And here, as I write, the faint, scarcely perceptible, ghost-like suspicion of a scent—a mere nostalgic fancy, compound, generic, synthetic and all-embracing—an abstract olfactory symbol of the "Tout Paris" of fifty years ago, comes back to me out of the past; and fain would I inhale it in all its pristine fulness and vigour."

Adjective

1
unhappy about being away and longing for familiar things or persons wordnet

Noun

1
A person who displays nostalgia for something.
"But of course every well-brought-up person to-day knows that the Victorians were sentimentalists, nostalgics, escapists, self-deceivers."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From nostalgia + -ic.

Etymology 2

From nostalgia + -ic.

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