Noun

(en noun)

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= 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.}}

Reminiscence of the speaker's childhood or younger years.

Noun

A general thought, feeling, or sense.

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)

, chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.

(label) Feelings, especially tender feelings, as apart from reason or judgment.

(label) Gentle or tender feelings, sometimes of a weak or foolish kind.