Nostalgia vs Remembrance - What's the difference?
nostalgia | remembrance |
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.
The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.
* Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage. .
* Lest the remembrance of his grief should fail. .
The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection.
* This, ever grateful, in remembrance bear. .
Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory.
That which serves to keep in or bring to mind; a memorial; a token; a memento; a souvenir; a memorandum or note of something to be remembered.
* And on his breast a bloody cross he bore, The dear remembrance of his dying Lord. .
* Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake.
(obsolete) Something to be remembered; counsel; admonition; instruction.
Power of remembering; reach of personal knowledge; period over which one's memory extends.
* Thee I have heard relating what was done Ere my remembrance . .
As nouns the difference between nostalgia and remembrance
is that nostalgia is a longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness while remembrance is the act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.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.}}
