Allure vs Nostalgia - What's the difference?
allure | nostalgia |
The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
gait; bearing
To entice; to attract.
*, II.8:
*:Injustice doth allure them; as the honour of their vertuous actions enticeth the good.
A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.
A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-16, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=10, page=20, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Reminiscence of the speaker's childhood or younger years.
As nouns the difference between allure and nostalgia
is that allure is affectation while nostalgia is nostalgia.allure
English
Noun
- The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men. — Harper's Magazine.
Verb
(allur)Synonyms
* attract, entice, tempt, decoy, seduceAnagrams
* ----nostalgia
English
Noun
(en noun)This is the cutest article, passage= I can't have been the only person, last week, to feel a rush of nostalgia upon learning that Thames Water had removed a bus-sized, 15-tonne lump of food fat ("mixed with wet wipes") from the sewers under London. The fatberg was an August news story redolent of the old-fashioned silly season.}}