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What is the noun for nostalgia?

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nostalgia
  1. A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.
  2. A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.
  3. Reminiscence of the speaker's childhood or younger years.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “This again is a film about memory, but this time one in which nostalgia for time past becomes a pathology.”
      “The religious and cultural bonds further cemented those ties with village people, which they remember with nostalgia.”
      “Ali's whimsical rendering of this imagined place evokes subtle feelings of nostalgia, and regret.”
nostalgic
  1. A person who displays nostalgia for something.
nostalgist
  1. A person who is prone to nostalgia
  2. Examples:
    1. “Is Abrams a chronic nostalgist, bowing so low to the fan base that his nose is rubbing against the floor?”
      “These short films show the mindset of a paranoid — an anti-urban nostalgist in fear of the crowd, of freer mores, of frivolous entertainments.”
      “Even a nostalgist might need a suspicious story to explain how things had gone wrong.”
nostalgy
  1. Archaic form of nostalgia.
nostalgiac
  1. A nostalgic person.
nostalgiacs
  1. plural of nostalgiac
nostalgists
  1. plural of nostalgist
  2. Examples:
    1. “They may have yearned for certainties, but so did the Kennedy nostalgists on the left.”
      “Of course, nostalgists will disagree on what period in the past should be our model.”
      “Pitting Saxons against Normans in an accurately emulated encounter from the original Amiga, this is a game for serious nostalgists only, however.”
nostalgias
nostalgics
  1. plural of nostalgic
  2. Examples:
    1. “Goode, who spent 17 years as the curator of the Smithsonian Castle, has not assembled a picture book for nostalgics.”
      “Certainly, both Morrissey's You Are the Quarry and the Cure's self-titled comeback have been welcomed by both nostalgics and newcomers.”
      “These are subtly conveyed, however, making this first and foremost a film for the children as much as the nostalgics among you.”
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