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Nostalgia

Meaning
Nostalgia, a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition. something that evokes nostalgia. A longing for something past. the state of being homesick : homesickness Often pictures of your childhood is "Nostalgia."

Etymology
borrowed from New Latin, from Greek nóstos "return, homecoming" (nominal derivative, with o-ablaut and the suffix -to-, from the base of néomai, neîsthai "to come/go [home, back], return") + -o- -O- + -algia -ALGIA; néomai going back to the Indo-European verbal base *nes- "escape danger, return safely," whence also Germanic *nesan- "to be saved, return safely" (whence Old English nesan, genesan "to be saved, survive" [strong verb class V], Old Saxon ginesan "to be saved, convalesce," Old High German, "to recover, be saved," Gothic ganisan "to be saved"), Sanskrit násate "approaches, resorts to someone, joins"; from a causative stem *nos-éi̯e- Germanic *nazjan-, whence Old English nerian "to save, preserve," Old Frisian nera "to save, nourish, Old Saxon nerian "to rescue, redeem, nourish," Old High German nerien, nerren "to nourish, support, save, heal," Gothic nasjan "to save, heal"; and from lengthened grade *nōzjan- Old Icelandic nœra "to refresh, nourish"

Nostalgia Sentence Examples
1. The sight of my college library triggers a wave of nostalgia for all the time I spent there during exams.

2.Every time I see a group of college friends hanging out, I can’t help but feel nostalgia for our own gatherings.

3. The sound of the college bell ringing brought a wave of nostalgia for the strict schedules we used to follow.