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Some Definitions of Nostalgia

"that the past is home"

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SOME DEFINITIONS OF NOSTALGIA

A wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition (Merriam-Webster).

The name we commonly give for to a bittersweet longing for former times and spaces (Niemeyer, 2014, p. 1).

Nostalgia is a recognition—pleasant, but not entirely welcome—that the past is home (Birkert…

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