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Meaning of "nostomania" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF NOSTOMANIA

nostomania  [ˌnɒstəʊˈmeɪnɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NOSTOMANIA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Nostomania is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES NOSTOMANIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of nostomania in the English dictionary

The definition of nostomania in the dictionary is a form of insanity due to extreme homesickness, a manic desire to return home.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NOSTOMANIA


Anglomania
ˌæŋɡləʊˈmeɪnɪə
bibliomania
ˌbɪblɪəʊˈmeɪnɪə
decalcomania
dɪˌkælkəˈmeɪnɪə
dipsomania
ˌdɪpsəʊˈmeɪnɪə
egomania
ˌiːɡəʊˈmeɪnɪə
erotomania
ɪˌrɒtəʊˈmeɪnɪə
hypomania
ˌhaɪpəʊˈmeɪnɪə
kleptomania
ˌklɛptəʊˈmeɪnɪə
leishmania
liːʃˈmeɪnɪə
mania
ˈmeɪnɪə
megalomania
ˌmɛɡələʊˈmeɪnɪə
melomania
ˌmɛləˈmeɪnɪə
nymphomania
ˌnɪmfəˈmeɪnɪə
pyromania
ˌpaɪrəʊˈmeɪnɪə
Romania
rəʊˈmeɪnɪə
Roumania
ruːˈmeɪnɪə
Rumania
ruːˈmeɪnɪə
Tasmania
tæzˈmeɪnɪə
technomania
ˌtɛknəʊˈmeɪnɪə
zoomania
ˌzəʊəˈmeɪnɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NOSTOMANIA

nosologist
nosology
nosophobia
nostalgia
nostalgic
nostalgically
nostalgist
nostoc
nostologic
nostological
nostology
nostopathy
nostos
nostradamic
Nostradamus
nostril
nostro account
nostrum
nosy
nosy parker

WORDS THAT END LIKE NOSTOMANIA

cleptomania
demonomania
dinomania
eleutheromania
graphomania
hydromania
hypermania
hysteromania
infomania
Lithuania
morphinomania
mythomania
necromania
Obamamania
orchidomania
petalomania
potichomania
theomania
toxicomania
tulipomania
xenomania

Synonyms and antonyms of nostomania in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «nostomania» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NOSTOMANIA

Find out the translation of nostomania to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of nostomania from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «nostomania» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

nostomania
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

nostomania
570 millions of speakers

English

nostomania
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

nostomania
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

هوس الأبابة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

nostomania
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

nostomania
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

nostomania
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Nostomania
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Nostomania
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

nostomania
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

nostomania
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

nostomania
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nostomania
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nostomania
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வீடு திரும்ப வேண்டும் என்ற பேராவல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नॉस्तमॅनिया
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

nostomania
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

nostomania
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nostomania
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

nostomania
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nostomania
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

nostomania
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

nostomania
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nostomania
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nostomania
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nostomania

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NOSTOMANIA»

The term «nostomania» is used very little and occupies the 183.348 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of nostomania
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NOSTOMANIA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «nostomania» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «nostomania» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about nostomania

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NOSTOMANIA»

Discover the use of nostomania in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nostomania and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender, and History
I find a word I had not previously known: nostomania. Defined as "intense homesickness," nostomania is "an irresistible compulsion to return home." The dictionary entry ends with a caution. Nostomania is "a desire that can never be met.
Miriam Peskowitz, 1997
2
The Garage Sale Millionaire: Make Money with Hidden Finds ...
Comic book websites such as Nostomania (www.nostomania.com/ servlets/com. nostomania.CatPage?name=Top100ComicsMain) and Diamond Comic Distributors (www.diamondcomics.com), as well as local comic book stores, are great ...
Aaron LaPedis, 2012
3
Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science: containing ...
NOSTOMANIA NUCLEUS trat'iia, ApodemiaVgia, Pathopatn'dal'gia, Pato- patridal'yia, PhiU>patridaV gia. Philopatridoma' - Mia, Ademon'ia, Ademot'yne, I/ ume-gickncte, (F.) Nostalgic, Maladie du pay. An affection produced by the desire of ...
Robley Dunglison, 1855
4
Home and its Dislocations in Nineteenth-Century France: ...
"Nostomania" is the attempt to create a technical word for nostalgia. C. Castelnau goes in the opposite direction from the distractions of Paris in recommending religion's promise of otherworldly satisfaction (Considerations sur la nostalgie, ...
Suzanne Nash, 1993
5
The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your ...
... or hospitals that nosocomial smell that always made his stomach queasy nosopoetic (nos-o-po-ET-ik) producing disease dangerously nosopoetic conditions nostomania (nos-to-MAY-ni-a) acute homesickness a urenching nostomania set off ...
David Grambs, 1997
6
The Routledge Spanish Bilingual Dictionary of Psychology and ...
... nosological approach - enfoque (m) nosológico nosology п - nosología (f) nosomania n - nosomania (f) nosophilia n - nosofilia (f) nosophobia n - nosofobia (f) nostalgia n - nostalgia (f) nostalgic adj - nostálgico nostomania n - nostomania (f) ...
Steven Kaplan, 2011
7
Post-communist Nostalgia
Five Theses on Eastern European Nostalgia (Nostomania) Nostalgia Is Heteroglossic To borrow Bakhtin's terms, upon close analysis it becomes clear that nostalgia is by no means the kind of “unitary language” or stable and internally ...
Maria Todorova, Zsuzsa Gille, 2013
8
The Diseases of the Cat
CHAPTER XI DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM RABIES—EPILEPSY—— APOPLEXY--NOSTOMANIA '—PARALYSIS. Rabies. FORTUNATELY, this great source of dread in the canine world is not, so far as my experience has gone, ...
John Woodroffe Hill, 1901
9
The Thinker's Thesaurus: Sophisticated Alternatives to ...
nostomania. [The Woodville football team] is suffering all the symptoms [of] nostomania. Take Woodville away from its familiar surroundings and it becomes bewildered, disoriented—something to be pitied and plundered. Two weeks ago it left ...
Peter E. Meltzer, 2010
10
The Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine: Comprising Treatises ...
Nostnlgia. A nosological compound from vans», to return, or vos-Toc, a return home or a journey homewards, and akyew, to be distressed, or axyoc, distress or sorrow—home-sorrow, home-sickness. Nostomania, from verra; and pensa, is the ...
Sir John Forbes, Alexander Tweedie, John Conolly, 1834

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NOSTOMANIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term nostomania is used in the context of the following news items.
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Murky images by Erol Eskici at Sanatorium Gallery
A painting from artist Erol Eskici's series “Subjects,” on display in his solo exhibition, “Nostomania,” at the Sanatorium art gallery in İstanbul. «Today's Zaman, Mar 15»
2
The most valuable comic books of all time
Rankings are from Nostomania, an online collectibles community, which draws near-mint valuations from CGC. Based on their rankings, some ... «CNBC, Aug 14»
3
West Valley comic-book store owners have anti-recession powers
Which comic books are considered the most valuable? Here's a list of the ten most valuable comics according to Nostomania.com. Sponsored ... «azcentral.com, Jul 14»
4
High-end comic book market going strong for local dealer
However, Nostomania -- a comic book collectors' blog regularly cited by newspapers and other news outlets -- has a list of the 100 most ... «Ellwood City Ledger, Jul 14»
5
Turning comics into instant cash
according to collector site Nostomania.com. Detective Comics #27 (1939). Current value: $2.57 million. This issue introduced us to the Caped ... «Toronto Sun, Aug 13»
6
KID KOALA: 3 Bit Blues LIVE IN STUDIO
DJ Brace - Kid Koala 12 Bit Blues Battle Routine - Duration: 2:56. by Nostomania Records 29,132 views. 2:56. Kid Koala - Moon River (Studio ... «YouTube, Sep 12»
7
Most Valuable US Coins
Our values of these rare coins are courtesy of Nostomania.com, a collectibles evaluator run by software developers and engineers that ... «Forbes, Apr 09»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Nostomania [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/nostomania>. Apr 2024 ».
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