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

n. The condition of being homesick; homesickness.

n. A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.

n. A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.

n. Reminiscence of the speaker's childhood or younger years.

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

n. 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.

n. Morbid longing to return to one's home or native country; homesickness, especially in its severe forms, producing derangement of mental and physical functions.

n. longing for something past

"As the descriptions of Brewer, that "torpid hive," or any look at Updike's writings would suggest, this nostalgia is inevitably complicated by darker realities."

yearning    hungriness    longing   

reminiscence    hark back    memory lane    halcyon days   

homesickness   

nostalgically    nostalgic   

homesickness   

homesickness    sadness    wistfulness    unease    regret    compunction    exasperation    nausea    self-pity    elation