Nostalgia vs History - What's the difference?
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A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.
A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.
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The aggregate of past events.
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A record or narrative description of past events.
A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.
A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.
(informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.
Shared experience or interaction.
(obsolete) To narrate or record.
As nouns the difference between nostalgia and history
is that nostalgia is nostalgia while history is the aggregate of past events.As a verb history is
(obsolete) to narrate or record.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.}}
Derived terms
* nostalgic * nostalgicallySee also
* halcyon days * hark back * memory lane * reminiscence ----history
English
Alternative forms
* historie (obsolete) * hystory (nonstandard) * hystorie (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia history) (wikiversity history lecture)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}
Race Finished, passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}
Lessons of past cast shadows over Syria, passage=History and experience act as a filter that can distort as much as elucidate. It is largely forgotten now, overlooked in the one-line description of Tony Blair and George W Bush as the men who lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, but there was a wider context to their conviction.}}
- There is too much history between them for them to split up now.
- He has had a lot of history with the police.
Synonyms
* (aggregate of past events) background, past * (record or narrative description of past events) account, chronicle, story, tale * medical history * logDerived terms
* alternate history * antihistory * antihistoricist, antihistoricism * art history * call history * case history * credit history * family history * herstory * historian * historic * historical * historically * historiography * history repeats itself * life history * local history * medical history * microhistory * natural history * oral history * postal history * prehistory * prehistorian * prehistoric * prosecution history * pseudohistoryVerb
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