Sep 4, 2009

nostomania

noun • /nos-tuh-MAY-nee-uh, -mayn-yuh/ • (obsolete, rare) overwhelming homesickness, or desire to return to familiar places.

From Greek νόστος (nostos, “a return home”) + mania.

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    I suffer from this terribly sometimes.
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    noun • /nos-tuh-MAY-nee-uh, -mayn-yuh/ • (obsolete, rare) overwhelming homesickness, or desire to return to familiar...
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    Every day of my life.
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    this summer, i was a nostomania fighter. sometimes, i was able...contain it pretty...
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    I’m at home, but there are places I wish I could be…
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    this is me about london. i was obsessed with the place even before visiting. hurry up 2012!
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    lioncub: wordjournal:
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    I feel this way a lot.
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    This could potentially explain why I didn’t like my time in DC,...why, as soon as I...
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    that’s why i wanted...come home asap today.
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    Whoa, what an appropriate word for a time such as this.
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    noun • /nos-tuh-MAY-nee-uh, -mayn-yuh/ • (obsolete, rare) overwhelming homesickness, or desire to return to familiar...
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    Today’s post in Word Journal was perfectly timed:...I woke up at 3am this morning with a...
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    how did tumblr know how i was feeling? wordjournal:
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    Oh, wow. Can this escalate into physical sickness as well? I mean, I know you can die from a broken heart…
  65. unsustainable reblogged this from wordjournal and added:
    There’s no moss on this rolling stone, so I can’t really claim...be homesick, but I do...
  66. nostalgiedelaboue reblogged this from wordjournal and added:
    i have this so badly right now. i’m such a cliche college student.
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    this is an AWESOME fucking word, new obsession.
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  74. eush reblogged this from nostrich and added:
    There’s always nostophobia, or nostocedia (nostos + acedia), which I just made up and means ‘indifference about home’.
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    How appropriate. But I haven’t been homesick for a week now.
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