Nostalgia vs Yearn - What's the difference?
nostalgia | yearn |
A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.
A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.
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, title= Reminiscence of the speaker's childhood or younger years.
To long, have a strong desire (for something).
* All I yearn for is a simple life.
To long for something in the past with melancholy, nostalgically
To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.
* Shakespeare
To pain; to grieve; to vex.
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As a noun nostalgia
is nostalgia.As a verb yearn is
to long, have a strong desire (for something) or yearn can be (scotland) to curdle, as milk.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 ----yearn
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) giernan, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Falstaff he is dead, and we must yearn therefore.
- It would yearn your heart to see it.
- It yearns me not if men my garments wear.
