Evocative vs Nostalgia - What's the difference?
evocative | nostalgia |
that evokes (brings to mind) a memory, mood, feeling or image; redolent or reminiscent
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 an adjective evocative
is that evokes (brings to mind) a memory, mood, feeling or ; redolent or reminiscent.As a noun nostalgia is
a longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.evocative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* reminiscent * redolent * remindful * resonant * suggestiveSee also
* expressive * vivid * graphic * powerful * haunting * moving * poignant ----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.}}