Did you maybe mean nostalgia?
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A form of homesickness one gets when one is still at home, but the environment is changed.
Etymologies
- Coined by Australian philosopher and researcher Glenn Albrecht of the roots Latin sōlācium (comfort) and Ancient Greek algia (pain). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He coined a term solastalgia, which describes "the pain or sickness caused by the inability to derive solace from the present state of one's home environment.”
“Comment: A new field of science called solastalgia attempts to explain the profound psychological damage that is done when people's connection to the land they love is broken.”
“Glenn Albrecht, Australian environmental philosopher who coined the term "solastalgia" and co-authored the document "NGO Working Group on the Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health and Psychosocial Well-Being: Guidelines for Action," referenced by the Green Party of BC in their policy statement”
“As a follow-up, I further object that perhaps this 'solastalgia' idea is not quite appropriate to the Chinese situation because - as I've often observed in my own blog - things change so quickly here that we seldom have a chance to achieve any level of comfort or familiarity with our surroundings.”
“In the past five years, the word "solastalgia" has appeared in media outlets as disparate as Wired, The Daily News in Sri Lanka and Andrew Sullivan's popular political blog,”
“solastalgia," a combination of the Latin word solacium (comfort) and the Greek root - algia”
“In a 2004 essay, he coined a term to describe it: "solastalgia," a combination of the Latin word solacium (comfort) and the Greek root - algia (pain), which he defined as "the pain experienced when there is recognition that the place where one resides and that one loves is under immediate assault ... a form of homesickness one gets when one is still at 'home.”
“In my own way, by defining solastalgia, I am trying to get people to recognise it, then work to defeat it.”
“Hello Arlene, you display a truely sophisticated undertsanding of what I mean by solastalgia.”
“And everyone who fears that loss is now balking, even as solastalgia begins to take hold.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘solastalgia’.
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Words For Novel (Part 2)
fable, sprite, syphilitic, anvil, wonderstruck, vertigo, bridled, tufted, fettered, savvy, tweed fedora, tryst and 255 more...
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Interesting
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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Down in the dumps, feeling blue? Here, then, is a list for you...
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Words I Intend to use.
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Solastalgia
Wiktionary defines solastalgia as a "form of homesickness one gets when one is still at home, but the environment is changed."
Last night I was riding my bike through my old neighborho...the house where t..., the house with th..., that house that l..., the house where t..., the house where t..., the recycling center, the house where t..., the house where t..., the house with th..., the goldenrod apa..., the house with th..., the house with th... and 38 more...
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delightful descriptors
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Worthy Wordie
words learnt from the Internet
unthink, meme, logophile, netiquette, onomatopoeia, singularity, oed, johnson's dictionary, man friday, lewis carroll, ontology, pro bono and 143 more...
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Myriadmiration
Neologisms ala Wordnik.com. Directly below are links to some other New Word lists... pease suggest yours to add!
Ne(word)er by whichbe
fake words by sionnach
frivolous uni...obstacular, frenemy, delayering, playgue, abjective, contradictionary, sarchasm, goggly, ecolect, disimagine, alligavate, sniboluous and 330 more...
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Random
These are just some random words that I might find a list for someday.
troglodytism, chinkle, vasculum, sabz, cucullus, tricornigerous, cuboctahedron, eruca, gamp, pilum, taha, angelhood and 244 more...
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Words of the Times
Words discovered while reading The New York Times, each with a citation from the paper.
testilying, ghost talk, apneist, solastalgia, izakaya, hooker, telectroscope, airflyte, phomance, bromhidrosis, stinky feet, cupping and 482 more...
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use•ful
palmary, glossolalia, bothum, high-proof, synesthesia, odious, autochthonous, yawp, mordacious, dynamo, dishevel, titely and 414 more...
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Awesome
Awesome words
mimsy, concupiscence, tumescent, ophidian, houri, vorpal, cyprian, Delphic, incipient, effete, existential, loam and 289 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Self-Descriptive
in the dark / it is easy to pretend / that the truth is what it ought to be
peripeteia, recidivist, pareidolia, apophenia, perendinate, apophasis, proslepsis, meretricious, ratiocinative, solastalgia, dysania, resistentialism
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madsimian's list
recently interesting words
autotomy, pareidolia, hyperthymesia, senescence, erstwhile, hyponetremia, onager, suture, spendthrift, suppuration, hypodescent, haptic and 37 more...
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Alie's list
apophenia, sidereal, perendinate, epopt, apophasis, meretricious, ratiocinative, adduce, solastalgia, illeism, dysania, geloscopy and 2 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for solastalgia.
immerbeta ..."Albrecht believes that this is a new type of sadness. People are feeling displaced. They're suffering symptoms eerily similar to those of indigenous populations that are forcibly removed from their traditional homelands. But nobody is being relocated; they haven't moved anywhere. It's just that the familiar markers of their area, the physical and sensory signals that define home, are vanishing. Their environment is moving away from them, and they miss it terribly.
Albrecht has given this syndrome an evocative name: solastalgia. It's a mashup of the roots solacium (comfort) and algia (pain), which together aptly conjure the word nostalgia. In essence, it's pining for a lost environment. "Solastalgia," as he wrote in a scientific paper describing his theory, "is a form of homesickness one gets when one is still at home.'"
Wired Magazine, Clive Thompson on How the Next Victim of Climate Change Will Be Our Minds Oct 2, 2008
john "Ecological degradation is not only affecting our external landscape; it’s also influencing our psychic one. Neologisms paint the picture: solastalgia is the depression caused when your local surroundings are damaged significantly; eco anxiety is a generalized worry about the environment."
The New York Times Magazine, Eco Anxiety, Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, April 20, 2008 Apr 20, 2008