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nostalgia|nɒˈstældʒɪə|
[a. mod.L. nostalgia (so It., Sp., Pg.; F. nostalgie (1802)), f. Gr. νόστος return home + ἄλγος pain.]
1. Path. A form of melancholia caused by prolonged absence from one's home or country; severe home-sickness.
1770J. Banks Jrnl. in J. Cook Jrnls. (1955) I. 409 The greatest part of them [sc. the ship's company] were now pretty far gone with the longing for home which the Physicians have gone so far as to esteem a disease under the name of Nostalgia. 1780Thacher Mil. Jrnl. (1823) 242 Many perplexing instances of indisposition,..called by Dr. Cullen nostalgia or home sickness. 1786R. Hamilton in Edin. Med. Comm. XI. 343 History of a remarkable Case of Nostalgia. 1818Syd. Smith Wks. (1867) I. 250 What a dreadful disease Nostalgia must be on the banks of the Missouri! 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xiii. 145 He looked as wretched as any lover of a milder clime. I hope I have treated his nostalgia successfully. 1877Owen in Wellesley's Desp. p. xlv, One who was to spend so much of his life in the East..should not be hampered by ties and habits calculated..to foster nostalgia.
transf.1842J. Wilson Chr. North I. 57 That pond has..about half-a-dozen trouts, if indeed they have not sickened and died of Nostalgia. 1861Times 24 Sept., The principal object thought of appears to be the health of the trees,..that they might not suffer too much from nostalgia.
2. transf. Regret or sorrowful longing for the conditions of a past age; regretful or wistful memory or recall of an earlier time.
1920D. H. Lawrence Lost Girl xv. 344 The terror, the agony, the nostalgia of the heathen past was a constant torture to her mediumistic soul. 1928A. Waugh Nor Many Waters vi. 231 He pictures with a sense of nostalgia, too acute almost to be endured, all that marriage to Marian would have meant. 1933D. Garnett Pocahontas xx. 234 Seeing all these things again filled her heart with that violent sentimental nostalgia..felt by the very young about the very recent past. 1943Koestler in Tribune 26 Nov. 13/1 Even the names of Paris underground stations..become the nostalgia-imbued stimuli of conditioned reflexes. 1945Auden For Time Being 37 We and They are united in the candid glare of the same commercial hope by day, and the soft refulgence of the same erotic nostalgia by night. 1951L. P. Hartley My Fellow Devils xxxiii. 339 The faults for which she had been obliged to sack him no longer counted:..she was free to dwell with some nostalgia on his virtues. 1957Listener 3 Oct. 512/1 When grown-ups become passionately interested in them [sc. children's books] some kind of nostalgia is involved. 1957B. & C. Evans Dict. Contemp. Amer. Usage 322/2 Now a vogue word, nostalgia has come to mean any vague yearning, especially for the past and especially..when tinged with tenderness and sadness. 1959Observer 8 Feb. 7/5 Nostalgia for one's childhood does not necessarily mean that the childhood was a happy one. 1971Sunday Times 30 May 32/2 Nostalgia's all right, But it's not what it was.
Add:[2.] b. Cause for nostalgia (sense 2 a above); freq. as a collective term for objects which evoke a former era, esp. remembered past. Cf. memorabilia n. pl.
1976P. de Vries I hear Amer. Swinging ii. 28 Her potato bread was sheer mouth-watering nostalgia. 1978F. Weldon Praxis xxiv. 261 The diet was nostalgia enough—a daily reminder..of Willy and her distracted youth. 1979United States 1980/81 (Penguin Travel Guides) 320 Pizazz..sell amusing nostalgia and contemporary adaptations. 1988Independent 20 Oct. 17/1 It was a curious mixture of early Seventies nostalgia and third-world embroidery worn by pale, languid models with decorated feet. |