Nostalgia
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nostalgia-163-3682262
title:
Nostalgia
text:
Nostalgia is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. The word nostalgia is a learned formation of a Greek compound, consisting of νόστος (nóstos), meaning "homecoming", a Homeric word, and ἄλγος (álgos), meaning "pain", and was coined by a 17th-century medical student to describe the anxieties displayed by Swiss mercenaries fighting away from home. Described as a medical condition—a form of melancholy—in the early modern period, it became
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Feeling sentimentality for the past
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostalgia
date created:
2003-01-19T20:03:38Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T05:39:26Z
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