nɑˈstælʤə · noun
Nostalgia, A stepping Stone to Growth
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Personally, I always wanted to know the origin of this word because it doesn't seem like an English word. This is the word created by a doctor so I expect that there will be interesting stories and fact.
First question · I want to find out why the Swiss doctor created the word and how it was used from people in daily lives.
01 Birth
This breakdown explains the word’s historical imagery; it is not a literal modern definition.
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02 Change & ContextNext, follow how that first meaning moved, and what world it moved through.Continue to 02 Change & Context →
02 Change & Context
One card per era — the meaning it carried, and the world it carried it in.
A type of mental illness
In 17th century, Swiss soldiers were serving abroad because of the war leaving their hometowns. They seriously missed their hometowns spending a long time away from home. There were even physical symptoms such as eating disorder, sleeplessness that showed to some of them. At that time, Johannes Hofer a medical student who was studying about such disease, created the word 'nostalgia' combining two Ancient Greek Nostos(homecoming) and Algos(pain).
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03 NetworkNext, see which other words this one stands beside.Continue to 03 Network →
03 Network
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04 VoicesNext, ask people what the word means to them today.Continue to 04 Voices →
04 Voices
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05 ReflectionNext, put the first definition beside the one that survived.Continue to 05 Reflection →
05 Reflection
A feeling of missing someone or something
Nostalgia is a motive power for going forward. From now on I want to use such feeling for a motive power for growth in my life.
Learning about the medical origin of the word and how homesickness was once considered a disease made me realize that nostalgia originally had a much more specific meaning than I thought.
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