different between nostalgia vs sentimental

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

Etymology

sentiment +? -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?nti?m?ntl?/
• Hyphenation: sen?ti?men?tal

Adjective

sentimental (comparative more sentimental, superlative most sentimental)

1. Characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion.
   • 2007, Steven Wilson, "Normal", Porcupine Tree, Nil Recurring.

2. Derived from emotion rather than reason; of or caused by sentiment.
3. Romantic.

Quotations

• 1885: Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado,

  Are you in sentimental mood?

  I'll sigh with you.

• 1944: Doris Day, Sentimental Journey,

  Gonna take a Sentimental Journey,

  Gonna set my heart at ease.

  Gonna make a Sentimental Journey,

  to renew old memories.

Antonyms

• unsentimental

Derived terms

• sentimentalism
• sentimentality
• sentimentally

Translations

Anagrams

• entailments

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /s?n.ti.m?n?tal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /sen.ti.men?tal/

Adjective

sentimental (masculine and feminine plural sentimentals)

1. sentimental

Derived terms

• sentimentalisme
• sentimentalitat
• sentimentalment

Related terms

• sentiment

Further reading

• “sentimental” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??.ti.m??.tal/
• Homophones: sentimentale, sentimentales

Adjective

sentimental (feminine singular sentimentale, masculine plural sentimentaux, feminine plural sentimentales)

1. sentimental

Further reading

• “sentimental” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Adjective

sentimental m or f (plural sentimentais)

1. sentimental

Derived terms

• sentimentalidade
• sentimentalismo
• sentimentalmente

Related terms

• sentimento

Further reading

• “sentimental” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?z?ntim?n?ta?l/

Adjective

sentimental (comparative sentimentaler, superlative am sentimentalsten)

1. sentimental

Declension

Further reading

• “sentimental” in Duden online

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English sentimental, ultimately from Latin sentimentum.

Adjective

sentimental (neuter singular sentimentalt, definite singular and plural sentimentale)

1. sentimental

Antonyms

• usentimental

References

• “sentimental” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English sentimental, ultimately from Latin sentimentum.

Adjective

sentimental (neuter singular sentimentalt, definite singular and plural sentimentale)

1. sentimental

Antonyms

• usentimental

References

• “sentimental” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French sentimental.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /s?.ti.m?.?ta?/
• Hyphenation: sen?ti?men?tal
• Rhymes: -aw

Adjective

sentimental m or f (plural sentimentais, comparable)

1. sentimental

Romanian

Etymology

From French sentimental

Adjective

sentimental m or n (feminine singular sentimental?, masculine plural sentimentali, feminine and neuter plural sentimentale)

1. sentimental

Declension

Related terms

• sentimentalism
• sentimentalitate

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sentimen?tal/, [s?n?.t?i.m?n??t?al]

Adjective

sentimental (plural sentimentales)

1. sentimental

Derived terms

• sentimentalidad
• sentimentalismo
• sentimentalmente
• valor sentimental

Related terms

• sentimiento

Further reading

• “sentimental” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.