Nostalgia for the past? Yes, I often feel some nostalgia ...

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Nostalgia for the past? Yes, I often feel some nostalgia about the 1980s. They were a lot better for the people in the West - but not the people living under Communism! Nostalgia for the more remote past? My father's mother was born in 1899. Her father went to work on a...See more

Anemoia is a coined term for the feeling of nostalgia for a time or place you’ve never actually experienced, often triggered by old photos, ...

... a time or place you’ve never actually experienced, often triggered by old photos, music, or media. Coined by John Koenig in The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, it’s a bittersweet longing for an…

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