Synonyms for "nostalgia"

 Here are some synonyms for "nostalgia":

• General synonyms:

  • Yearning
  • Longing
  • Sentimentality

• More specific synonyms:

  • Homesickness
  • Saudade (a Portuguese word expressing a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves)
  • Hiraeth (a Welsh word expressing a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home which maybe never was; the loss of or the desire for something irretrievably lost; a profound melancholic longing for an idealized past)  

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