Nostalgia

//nɒˈstæld͡ʒə//

Synonyms for "nostalgia" (51 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (11)

aching bathos bleeding heart cloyingness daydream daydreaming desiderium goo hankering hearts-and-flowers heimweh

Strong matches (15)

home sickness homesickness honing languishing languishment longing mal du pays maladie du pays maudlinness mawkishness mush mushiness namby pamby namby-pamby namby-pambyism

Related words (25)

Related word relations

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8 relation types

More general

3 entries

hungriness longing yearning

Antonyms

2 entries

nostopathy nostophobia

Related terms

10 entries

Eastalgia anemoia fauxstalgia halcyon days hark back memory lane nostalgie de la boue reminiscence solastalgia technostalgia

causes desire

2 entries

read letter see old things

defined as

1 entries

state of being nostalgic

derived

10 entries

Yugo-nostalgia blinded by nostalgia nostalgia goggles nostalgic nostalgically nostalgise nostalgism nostalgist nostalgize retro-nostalgia

is a

3 entries

emotion human emotion longing

related to

13 entries

bittersweet childhood familiar halcyon days hark back home homesickness longing memory lane past reminiscence surroundings yearning

Translations

79 translations across 54 languages.

Albanian

1 entries

nostalgji noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Arabic

2 entries

اِشْتِيَاق noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
حَنِين noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Armenian

2 entries

կարոտաբաղձություն noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
նոստալգիա noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Asturian

1 entries

señardá noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

nostalgiya noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Belarusian

1 entries

настальгі́я noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Bulgarian

1 entries

носта́лгия noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Catalan

1 entries

nostàlgia noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

懷古 /怀古 noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
懷舊 /怀旧 noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Czech

1 entries

nostalgie noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Danish

1 entries

nostalgi noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Dutch

1 entries

nostalgie noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Esperanto

2 entries

nostalgio noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
saŭdado noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Estonian

1 entries

nostalgia noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Finnish

3 entries

haikeus noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
kaiho noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
nostalgia noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

French

1 entries

nostalgie noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Galician

1 entries

morriña noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Georgian

1 entries

ნოსტალგია noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

German

2 entries

Nostalgie noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
Wehmut noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Greek

1 entries

νοσταλγία noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Hebrew

1 entries

נוֹסְטַלְגְיָה noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Hindi

4 entries

उदासी noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
गृह-विरह noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
गृहस्मारी noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
गृहातुरता noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Hungarian

1 entries

nosztalgia noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Icelandic

2 entries

fortíðarþrá noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
nostalgía noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Indonesian

1 entries

nostalgia noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Italian

1 entries

nostalgia noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Japanese

4 entries

ノスタルジア noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
ノスタルジー noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
懐古 noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
懐旧 noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Khmer

1 entries

ការនឹករលឹក noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Korean

3 entries

노스탤지어 noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
향수 noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
회향 noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Ladino

2 entries

deskarinyo (Izmir) noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
eskarinyo noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Latvian

1 entries

nostalģija noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Lithuanian

1 entries

nostalgija noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Macedonian

1 entries

носталгија noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Malayalam

2 entries

ഗതാതുരത്വം noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
ഗൃഹാതുരത്വം noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Mongolian

1 entries

дурсахуй noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

nostalgi noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

nostalgi noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Persian

2 entries

اندمه noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
نوستالژی noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Polish

1 entries

nostalgia noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Portuguese

2 entries

nostalgia noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
saudade noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Romanian

1 entries

nostalgie noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Russian

2 entries

ностальги́я noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
тоска́ noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

cianalas noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

nostàlgija noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
носта̀лгија noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Slovak

1 entries

nostalgia noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Slovene

1 entries

nostalgija noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Spanish

2 entries

añoranza noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
nostalgia noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Swedish

1 entries

nostalgi noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Thai

1 entries

ความคิดถึง noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Turkish

1 entries

nostalji noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Ukrainian

1 entries

ностальгі́я noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Urdu

1 entries

اداسی noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Vietnamese

3 entries

hoài niệm noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
nuối tiếc noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
nỗi nhớ noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Welsh

1 entries

hiraeth noun (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)

Sample sentences

19 total sentences available.

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Tom loves the nostalgia of listening to hit songs from his youth.

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Tom was overwhelmed with nostalgia when he went back to visit his old school fifty years after he had graduated from it.

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Listening to this song fills my heart with nostalgia.

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I am not looking forward to going to university abroad - I will feel intense nostalgia for my home town.

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