nostalgias
Aches for yesterday
Nostalgias is the plural of nostalgia, referring to multiple instances or varieties of sentimental longing for the past.
The plural form appears when distinguishing different types: competing nostalgias for prewar Europe, the nostalgias of immigrant communities.
It can also mean separate episodes of nostalgic feeling: His nostalgias were triggered by old photographs.
Stored past experiences
- childhoodLife's earliest phase
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- reminiscenceRecalling past experiences
- sentimentalityExcessive tender emotion
wistfulness · homesickness · yearning · bittersweet · photographs · keepsakes · scrapbooks · heirlooms
Evoking recent past
- vintageQuality from past eras
- throwbackReturn to ancestral type
- revivalReturn after decline
- kitschTasteless, garish art
Americana · heritage · tradition · classics · oldies · vinyl · memorabilia · antiques
Reddish-brown pigment
- fadedLost original color
- patinaSurface film from aging
- weatheredEroded by exposure
- agedAdvanced in years
polaroid · monochrome · analog · handcrafted · artisanal · rustic · worn · distressed
memories
Stored past experiences
- childhoodLife's earliest phase
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- reminiscenceRecalling past experiences
sentimentality · wistfulness · homesickness · yearning · bittersweet · photographs · keepsakes · scrapbooks · heirlooms · mementos
retro
Evoking recent past
kitsch · Americana · heritage · tradition · classics · oldies · vinyl · memorabilia · antiques · reruns
sepia
Reddish-brown pigment
aged · polaroid · monochrome · analog · handcrafted · artisanal · rustic · worn · distressed · mellowed
zeitgeist
Era's dominant mentality
- eraDistinct historical period
- decadeTen-year span
- generationAge-defined peer group
epoch · period · movement · shared · communal · national · historical · postwar · diaspora · exile
marketing
Promoting goods to consumers
reissue · collector · merchandise · packaging · jingles · mascots · discontinued · candy · toys · cereals
nostalgiasanticipations
Forecasts of future events
expectations · hopes · forward-looking · futurism · premonitions
nostalgiasregrets
Sorrows over past actions
traumas · resentments · amnesia · forgetting · moving on
nostalgiasmindfulness
Awareness of the present
living in the moment · presence · here and now · immediacy · nowness
- nostalgic yearningBittersweet longing for past
- childhood nostalgiaSentimental ache for youth
- nostalgia gogglesBias idealizing the past
- nostalgia factorEmotional draw of past
- summer nostalgiaLonging for past warmth
- nostalgia baitMedia exploiting fond remembrance