Retrospect vs Nostalgia - What's the difference?
retrospect | nostalgia |
consideration of past times
* 1853 , , "Villette":
* 1976 , edition, ISBN 0820311286, page 298:
To look or refer back to; to reflect on
* 1804: Alexander Hamilton, Letter to John Adams (Bartlett) - To give a correct idea of the circumstances.., it may be useful to retrospect to an early period.
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.
As nouns the difference between retrospect and nostalgia
is that retrospect is consideration of past times while nostalgia is a longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.As a verb retrospect
is to look or refer back to; to reflect on.retrospect
English
Noun
(en noun)- My mind, calmer and stronger now than last night, made for itself some imperious rules, prohibiting under deadly penalties all weak retrospect of happiness past; commanding a patient journeying through the wilderness of the present...
- Whether, like Colin, in retrospect Willie Lee and Baptist would feel that what has vanished was greater than what was achieved, is not something we can predict.
Antonyms
* prospectDerived terms
* in retrospectVerb
(en verb)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.}}
