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    [Adjective]  | "nos*tal*gic" | \ nä-ˈstal-jik \


    1: feeling or inspiring nostalgia: such as

    2: longing for or thinking fondly of a past time or condition

    3: evocative of a longed-for past time or condition


    Origin: 1782 ;

     {see: |nostalg(ia)|nostalgia} + {see: |-ic:1|-ic:1};

    [Noun]  | "nostalgic" 


    1: someone who longs for a past time or condition : a person given to nostalgia


    Origin: 1874 ;

     Noun derivative of {see: |nostalgic:1|nostalgic:1};

    [Adjective]  | "nostalgic" 


    1: showing or evoking a longing for an often idealized past;


      * e.g., " ... Her grandfather was nostalgic about the 'good old days'. "





     [ "nostalgic" ]

    1: Feeling a loss, regret, or wanting something that was meant to be forgotten. Something that was in the past, that one aches to remember.

      * e.g.,  ... She felt nostaligic about the person she used to be, and hated the person she had become now. 

     [ "nostalgic" ]

    1: I'm vibing I' m vibing i'm vibing i"M v ibing i " m v i b i n g g N i B I v m " i tO tHE mUsI C

      * e.g.,  ... That nostalgic song... I've never gotten sick of it although it's so insanely overplayed! 

     [ "nostalgic" ]

    1: missing/wanting/needing something you never had

      * e.g.,  ... she was nostalgic everytime she saw him. 

     [ "Nostalgic" ]

    1: An item or anything that brings back good memories

      * e.g.,  ... Wow the Teletubbies gives me nostalgic moments of happiness 

     [ "Nostalging" ]

    1: The verb for the word "Nostalgia", which is the feeling you get when romantically yearning for the past, often in idealized form. Nostalging is most common when stumbling upon a song you haven't heard since your younger days.

      * e.g.,  ... Lynch: Dude, I was nostalging so hard last night. Fisher: Really, what happened? Lynch: Remember the song "The Middle" by "Jimmy Eat World"? It was playing in the store last night! Fisher: I haven't heard that song foreve--Ah man, now I'm nostalging! Ahh, those were good days... 

     [ "nostalg" ]

    1: To treat nostalgically; feel strongly nostalgic about. Essentially carries the same meaning as nostalgize, but sounds way cooler.

      * e.g.,  ... 1: Bro, I nostalg about last year. 

     [ "nostalgically" ]

    1: (adv.) To invoke that which is characterized by nostalgia

      * e.g.,  ... I don't know if nostalgically is a word, but I wrote it and that's that. 

     [ "Nostalge" ]

    1: The action of seeking out media from ones past, specifically their childhood, for the purpose of remembering those times; to feel nostalgia.

      * e.g.,  ... I'm going to binge Dexter's Lab later just to nostalge a bit. 

     [ "nostalgence" ]

    1: an act of indulging in nostalgia, particularly by one who yearns for an idealized version of the past.

      * e.g.,  ... With some difficulty, Fonzie finally abandoned his nostalgence for the year 1955 by remarking that "people who live in the past are mostly...dead." 

     [ "nostalgically" ]

    1: (adv.) To invoke that which is characterized by nostalgia

      * e.g.,  ... I don't know if nostalgically is a word, but I wrote it and that's that. 

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