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A longing to return home
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homesickness
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Word definitions for homesickness in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Homesickness is the distress or impairment caused by an actual or anticipated separation from home . Its cognitive hallmark is preoccupying thoughts of home and attachment objects. Sufferers typically report a combination of depressive and anxious symptoms, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. The characteristic of being homesick; a strong, sad feeling of missing one's home (and often left-behind loved ones, such as family and friends) when physically away. n. The characteristic of being homesick; a strong, sad feeling of missing one's home ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a longing to return home
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Homesick \Home"sick`\, a. Pining for home; in a nostalgic condition. -- Home"sick`ness , n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1756, translating German heimweh, from Heim "home" + Weh "woe, pain;" the compound is from Swiss dialect, expressing the longing for the mountains. The word was introduced to other European languages 17c. by Swiss mercenaries. Also see nostalgia .
Usage examples of homesickness.
Simply, he held her until he could feel the stiffness of her outrage fade into the soft sounds of sobs as she cried out all her unhappiness and homesickness for the world she had left behind in Connecticut.
From now on Resa would be telling Silvertongue all the wonderful stories that drove away loneliness and homesickness and fear again.
A wave of homesickness washed over the barbarian, and weakened his knees.
A wave of homesickness and relief made him want to embrace the lot, laughing and crying.
An overpowering ache possessed her, homesickness, the desire to snuggle in a dark apartment to eat, and drink cool wine, and rest.
Having never truly conquered his homesickness, Mosiah was only too happy to recall his early life in the farm village.
The feeling of homesickness that Mosiah had experienced beside the tomb of the wizard returned.
He was painting a picture, a living picture, using the air for his canvas, his homesickness for his brush.
He had several bouts of homesickness, although his conditioning helped a little against that.
But time and time again a strange anxiety and homesickness had driven this migrant, who was always on the move and could never settle down anywhere, back to South Germany by forced marches.
You were a wanderer in my name and wherever you went you brought the settled folk a little homesickness for freedom.
Only the amulet on his left wrist was unchanged, and its curiously knotted flax threads and familiar beads gave her a feeling akin to homesickness, for he who wore it seemed a stranger.
Kathryn found herself wondering if the admiral thought a lack of susceptibility to homesickness was a good thing or a bad one.
He held the sword for a minute, and homesickness rolled over him so strongly that his eyes stung.
It was coming on evening as they went through the village, and he felt a pang of homesickness as lights appeared in the windows.