different between nostalgia vs history

English

Etymology

From New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek ?????? (nóstos, “returning home”) + ????? (álgos, “pain”). Ancient Greek *????????? (*nostalgía) is unattested. Compare Italian nostalgia, Spanish nostalgia, Portuguese nostalgia and saudade and French nostalgie.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n??stald??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /n??stæld??/, /n??stæld??/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /n??stæld??/

Noun

nostalgia (countable and uncountable, plural nostalgias)

1. A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.
2. A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.
3. Reminiscence of the speaker's childhood or younger years.

Synonyms

• nostalgy

Derived terms

• nostalgic
• nostalgically

Antonyms

• nostopathy
• nostophobia

Translations

See also

• halcyon days
• hark back
• memory lane
• reminiscence

Anagrams

• analogist, antigoals, galtonias

Finnish

Etymology

From New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek ?????? (nóstos, “returning home”) + ????? (álgos, “pain”).

Noun

nostalgia

1. nostalgia

Declension

Derived terms

• nostalgikko
• nostalginen
• nostalgisesti
• nostalgisoida
• nostalgisointi
• nostalgisuus

Italian

Etymology

From New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek ?????? (nóstos, “returning home”) + ????? (álgos, “pain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nos.tal?d??i.a/
• Hyphenation: no?stal?gi?a

Noun

nostalgia f (plural nostalgie)

1. nostalgia, homesickness, longing

Related terms

• nostalgico

Anagrams

• angolasti
• lagnatosi
• stagliano

Polish

Etymology

From French nostalgie, from New Latin nostalgia, from Ancient Greek ?????? (nóstos) + ????? (álgos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??stal.??ja/

Noun

nostalgia f

1. nostalgia (yearning for the past)

Declension

Derived terms

• (nouns) nostalgik, nostalgiczka
• (adjective) nostalgiczny

Related terms

• (adverb) nostalgicznie

Further reading

• nostalgia in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• nostalgia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek ?????? (nóstos, “returning home”) + ????? (álgos, “pain”).

Cognate with Galician nostalxia.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /nu?.ta?.??i.?/
• Hyphenation: nos?tal?gi?a

Noun

nostalgia f (plural nostalgias)

1. nostalgia (yearning for the past)

Spanish

Etymology

From New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek ?????? (nóstos, “returning home”) + ????? (álgos, “pain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nos?talxja/, [nos?t?al.xja]
• Hyphenation: nos?tal?gia

Noun

nostalgia f (plural nostalgias)

1. nostalgia

Related terms

• nostálgico

English

Alternative forms

• historie (obsolete)
• hystory (nonstandard)
• hystorie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English historie, from Old French estoire, estorie (“chronicle, history, story”) (French histoire), from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (historí?, “learning through research”), from ??????? (historé?, “to research, inquire (and) record”), from ????? (híst?r, “the knowing, wise one”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Doublet of story and storey.

Attested in Middle English in 1393 by John Gower, Confessio Amantis, which was aimed at an educated audience familiar with French and Latin.

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?s?t(?)r?, h?s?tr?, IPA^(key): /?h?st(?)?i/, /?h?st(?)??/
• Hyphenation: his?to?ry, hist?ory

Noun

history (countable and uncountable, plural histories)

1. The aggregate of past events.

   Synonyms: background, past

2. The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.

3. (countable) A set of events involving an entity.
4. (countable) A record or narrative description of past events.

   Synonyms: account, chronicle, story, tale

5. (countable, medicine) A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.

   Synonym: medical history

6. (countable, computing) A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.

   Synonym: log
7. (informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.

8. (uncountable) Shared experience or interaction.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Pitcairn-Norfolk: histrei

Translations

Verb

history (third-person singular simple present histories, present participle historying, simple past and past participle historied)

1. (obsolete) To narrate or record.

References

Further reading

• history on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• history at OneLook Dictionary Search
• history in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "history" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 146.
• history in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Toryish, Troyish, roytish

Middle English

Noun

history

1. Alternative form of historie