| Main Entry: | nostalgia |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pleasant remembrances |
Synonyms: |
fond memories, hearts and flowers, homesickness, longing, pining, reminiscence, remorse, schmaltz, sentimentality, tear-jerker, wistfulness, yearning |
| Main Entry: | flashback |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | remembrance |
Synonyms: |
flash from the past, hallucination, memory, nostalgia, recall, recollection, reliving, reminiscence, thoughts of the past, voice from the past |
| Main Entry: | regret |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | upset over past action |
Synonyms: |
affliction, anguish, annoyance, apologies, apology, bitterness, care, compunction, concern, conscience, contrition, demur, disappointment, discomfort, dissatisfaction, dole, grief, heartache, heartbreak, lamentation, misgiving, nostalgia, pang, penitence, qualm, regretfulness, remorse, repentance, ruefulness, scruple, self-accusation, self-condemnation, self-disgust, self-reproach, sorrow, uneasiness, woe, worry |
| Notes: | regret carries no explicit admission that one is responsible for an incident, while remorse implies a sense of guilty responsibility and a greater feeling of personal pain and anguish |
Antonyms: |
contentedness, happiness, satisfaction |
| Main Entry: | romance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adventure, flight of fancy |
Synonyms: |
charm, color, excitement, exoticness, fairy tale, fancy, fantasy, fascination, glamour, hazard, idealization, idyll, mystery, nostalgia, risk, sentiment, venture |
| Main Entry: | reminiscence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account |
Synonyms: |
anecdote, chronicle, firsthand account, memoirs, memory, nostalgia, recollection, reliving, remembering, remembrance, story, yarn |
| Main Entry: | sentimentality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sentimentalism |
Synonyms: |
bathos, emotionalness, gushiness, maudlinness, mawkishness, melodrama, melodramatics, mushiness, nostalgia, reminiscence, sentiment, triteness |
| Main Entry: | maudlinism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sentimentality |
Synonyms: |
bathos, emotionalness, gushiness, maudlinness, mawkishness, melodrama, melodramatics, mushiness, nostalgia, reminiscence, sentiment, sentimentalism, triteness |
| Main Entry: | mawkishness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sentimentality |
Synonyms: |
bathos, emotionalness, gushiness, maudlinism, maudlinness, melodrama, melodramatics, mushiness, nostalgia, reminiscence, sentiment, sentimentalism, triteness |
| Main Entry: | mushiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sentimentality |
Synonyms: |
bathos, emotionalness, gushiness, maudlinism, maudlinness, mawkishness, melodrama, melodramatics, nostalgia, reminiscence, sentiment, sentimentalism, triteness |
| Main Entry: | sappiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sentimentality |
Synonyms: |
bathos, emotionalness, gushiness, maudlinism, maudlinness, mawkishness, melodrama, melodramatics, mushiness, nostalgia, reminiscence, sentiment, sentimentalism, triteness |