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Synonyms for homesickness
home·sick·ness
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Princeton's WordNet
homesicknessnoun
a longing to return home
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Editors Contribution
nostomania
to want to go home.
my homesickness was acting up again, making me want to go back home.
Submitted by JP03 on December 2, 2014
Dictionary of English Synonymes
homesicknessnoun
Synonyms:
NOSTALGIA
Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #16975 | nostalgia | |
| #22948 | longing | |
| #108637 | homesickness |
How to use homesickness in a sentence?
Festivals are the days when homesickness is at its worst, and Moon Festival is an important festival for the Chinese.
Not all homesickness was necessarily going to kill you, but if you had a really acute case, it would qualify as nostalgia, there are lots of different sets of overlapping descriptions : a shortness of breath, palpitations of the heart, dysentery, fever, problems with the lungs. Or it was feeling an acute yearning, and then your body would start to close down.
Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.
I definitely miss the community environment. There are people whose faces you don't see except for a few months of the year, and this is one of those months, there's more homesickness now than there would be in another month.
Translations for homesickness
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- الشواق, اشتياق, حنينArabic
- носталгияBulgarian
- nostalgie, stesk po domověCzech
- hiraethWelsh
- hjemveDanish
- Heimweh, NostalgieGerman
- νοσταλγίαGreek
- morriña, nostalgiaSpanish
- koti-ikäväFinnish
- nostalgie, mal du paysFrench
- cianalasScottish Gaelic
- honvágyHungarian
- kerinduanIndonesian
- heimþráIcelandic
- nostalgiaItalian
- 郷愁, 里心, 望郷Japanese
- homesicknessLatin
- heimweeDutch
- hjemlengselNorwegian
- tęsknota za krajem, nostalgiaPolish
- saudadePortuguese
- тоска, тоска по родине, ностальгияRussian
- nostalgi, hemlängtanSwedish
- בענקעדיגYiddish
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