Costalgia vs Nostalgia - What's the difference?
costalgia | nostalgia |
pain in the ribs, or the costal muscles
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 costalgia and nostalgia
is that costalgia is pain in the ribs, or the costal muscles while nostalgia is nostalgia.costalgia
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Noun
(-)Synonyms
* pleuralgia, pleurodynianostalgia
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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.}}