Recall vs Nostalgia - What's the difference?
recall | nostalgia |
To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc.
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To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect.
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 10:
(intransitive) To call again, to call another time.
To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
Memory; the ability to remember.
In , the fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search
a product recall (request of the return of a faulty product).
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.
As nouns the difference between recall and nostalgia
is that recall is the action or fact of calling someone or something back while nostalgia is a longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.As a verb recall
is to withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).recall
English
(wikipedia recall)Verb
(en verb)- He was recalled to service after his retirement.
- She was recalled to London for the trial.
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- In fact, I hardly recall any occasion as a child when I was alone.
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* * English heteronyms ----nostalgia
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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.}}
