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Definition
happiness that come with the memory of good times combined with a hint of sadness that those times are over
- She speaks with nostalgia of the years her family had spent in England,Chapter 8 (78% in)
nostalgia = longing for something past
- He didn't want to attend his father's alma mater, and live in an apartment in Central Square as his parents once had, and revisit the streets about which his parents speak nostalgically.Chapter 6 (4% in)
- He feels no nostalgia for the vacations he's spent with his family, and he realizes now that they were never really true vacations at all.Chapter 6 (91% in)
- It is a cafe they've been to before, and he feels the slight nostalgia it is sometimes possible to feel at the end of an extended stay in a foreign place, taking in the details that will soon evaporate from his mind: the surly waiter who has served them both times, the view of the shops across the street, the green and yellow straw chairs.Chapter 9 (58% in)
There are no more uses of "nostalgia" in The Namesake.
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