noun. A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past.

noun. The condition of being homesick; homesickness.

noun. Morbid longing to return to one's home or native country; homesickness, especially in its severe forms, producing derangement of mental and physical functions.

noun. Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.

noun. A sentimental yearning to return to an earlier time remembered as happier or more pleasant, or a former place evoking happy memories; a longing to experience again a former happy time.

noun. A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.

noun. A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.

noun. Reminiscence of the speaker's childhood or younger years.

noun. longing for something past

"While acknowledging that indulging in nostalgia is itself a separate realm of lameness, let me ask, Which is lamer: being too young to remember a given period and then getting the nostalgia wrong, or not being too young but having been so out of touch with popular culture that subsequent attempts at nostalgia are woefully inaccurate?"

halcyon days  hark back  memory lane  reminiscence  

nostalgic  nostalgically  

hungriness  longing  yearning  

homesickness  

compunction  elation  empathy  exasperation  foreboding  

Heimweh  aching  bathos  bleeding heart  cloyingness