nostalgia

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A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past.

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The condition of being homesick; homesickness.

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Morbid longing to return to one’s home or native country; homesickness, especially in its severe forms, producing derangement of mental and physical functions.

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Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.

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A sentimental yearning to return to an earlier time remembered as happier or more pleasant, or a former place evoking happy memories; a longing to experience again a former happy time.

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A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.

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A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.

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Reminiscence of the speaker’s childhood or younger years.

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longing for something past