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nostalgia (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr.  a return home +  pain.]
    1. (Med.) Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.

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    2. 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; as, “a nostalgia for the brotherhood of the Woodstock music festival; a nostalgia for the comradeship of one's college friends”.

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