NOSTALGIA (Gr. νόστος, return home, and ἄλγος, grief), home-sickness, the desire when away to return home, amounting sometimes to a form of melancholia.
See also Nostalgia on Wikipedia; and our 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica disclaimer.
NOSTALGIA (Gr. νόστος, return home, and ἄλγος, grief), home-sickness, the desire when away to return home, amounting sometimes to a form of melancholia.