Nostalgia vs Flashback - What's the difference?
nostalgia | flashback |
A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.
A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.
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, volume=189, issue=10, page=20, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Reminiscence of the speaker's childhood or younger years.
a dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative
(psychology) a vivid mental image of a past trauma, especially one that recurs
a similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug
the condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system
As nouns the difference between nostalgia and flashback
is that nostalgia is a longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness while flashback is a dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.nostalgia
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(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.}}