Nostalgic vs. Nostalgia

A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past.

A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past.

The condition of being homesick; homesickness.

The condition of being homesick; homesickness.

Of, having, or relating to nostalgia.

A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.

A person who displays nostalgia for something.

(transferred sense) A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.

Of or pertaining to nostalgia; affected with nostalgia.

Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.

Unhappy at being away and longing for familiar things or persons

A sentimental yearning to return to an earlier time remembered as happier or more pleasant, or a former place evoking happy memories; a longing to experience again a former happy time; as, a nostalgia for the brotherhood of the Woodstock music festival; a nostalgia for the comradeship of one's college friends.

Longing for something past