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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
- He pees on the grasshoppers, watches with nostalgia as they whir away.p. 372.2
- He watches them with envy, or is it nostalgia?p. 6.4
- Already it felt like old time's sake, already it felt like nostalgia — something they were too grown-up for, like middle-aged guys cruising the pleebland teeny clubs.p. 89.5
- And though various older forms had dragged on — the TV sitcom, the rock video — their audience was ancient and their appeal mostly nostalgic.p. 187.5
- "Hi there, cork—nut," said Crake, and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like sudden hunger.p. 198.9
There are no more uses of "nostalgia" in Oryx and Crake.
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