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Nostalgy vs Elegy - What's the difference?

nostalgy | elegy |

As nouns the difference between nostalgy and elegy

is that nostalgy is while elegy is a mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.

nostalgy

English

Noun

    • (Webster 1913)

    elegy

    English

    (wikipedia elegy)

    Noun

    (elegies)
  • A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.

    • Synonyms

    * dirge, threnody

    Coordinate terms

    * requiem – a piece of music played at a mass for the dead

    Derived terms

    * elegiac

    See also

    * eulogy – similar sounding funeral word

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