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"homesickness" Definitions
  1. the feeling of being sad because you are away from home and you miss your family and friends

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In its original definition, it means homesickness; for many here, the homesickness they evince is for a period they're too young to have known.
As soon as he arrived in Europe, homesickness set in.
Vintage photos of joy, adventure and homesickness at summer camp.
There was a lot of homesickness coming through on that record.
Her homesickness only intensified in late January as the coronavirus spread.
"Immersing myself in Bengali poetry alleviated fatigue and homesickness," he says.
My love for Middleswarth is basically just a manifestation of homesickness.
Wise, the scientist working in Antarctica, has some experience with homesickness.
Past Tense Vintage photos of joy, adventure and homesickness at summer camp.
She steered clear of the drama, despite being hit with waves of homesickness.
These are some of their stories — laced with hope, tragedy, homesickness and triumph.
Here are some of their stories, laced with hope, tragedy, homesickness and triumph.
It's not the first time Kylie shared a bit of homesickness on social media.
Now, it seems evident that Disney sees provoking existential homesickness as its main job.
The first step to overcoming homesickness is to get out of your dorm room.
One of the biggest causes of homesickness is a sense of loneliness says Sutton.
The only down side was that I missed my family, and developed severe homesickness.
"People could leave home and become servants and then be overcome with homesickness," said Shorter.
After an initial period of homesickness, I discovered that I loved my new American life.
And the good news: If you play it right, the homesickness should abate by Thanksgiving.
For 21-year-old Hon'mana Seukteoma, YouTube was an exercise in connection born from homesickness.
As I watched the frustratingly inconclusive BBC footage, I was overcome with an acute homesickness.
Partially from homesickness, partially from nostalgia, everything about Canada was better when I was gone.
So, to cure my mild homesickness, I decided to build the world's longest beer bong.
The first month or two of college can be a lonely time that causes some homesickness.
For many people, homesickness is wrapped up in a serious craving for their favorite regional foods.
The counselors called my parents to say that they'd never seen someone so stricken with homesickness.
Worgull: Homesickness comes into play when you're at home and then have to leave, to go.
Let him know how common homesickness is, and share your own stories (true or lightly fictionalized).
They're all distracted—by the heat, homesickness, or the fact that they've lost a phone signal.
Remembering the feeling of homesickness reminds us where we came from, that we come from somewhere.
One of the chief salves for homesickness has remained constant over the decades: mail from home.
It is the disorienting homesickness we experience without leaving home, when home has altered beyond recognition.
It's about aspiration and hustle and dreams, but it's also about homesickness and alienation and loneliness.
Being an ~adult~ with your own place doesn't automatically eliminate homesickness from your range of emotions.
If you've been away from home, what have you learned from homesickness and managing new freedoms?
For all his bitterness and cutting remarks, he's still a British royal who is prone to homesickness.
So the new radio station may be able to help in that regard — by triggering some homesickness.
It's meant to signify homesickness for a place you know you can't revisit — a powerful, painful yearning.
My husband thinks this is a routine case of homesickness, and we should let it play out.
I learned to cook out of homesickness and wanting to create a space for people to congregate.
Amanda especially gets a bout of homesickness, signaling how much these homes mean to these women's lives.
Upon arriving in Mexico City, Graham had expected he would suffer from bouts of homesickness or cultural disorientation.
I feel like being away from home at such a young age is a perfect prescription for homesickness.
A mix of decorum and homesickness seizing me, I leapt up, motioning for her to take my seat.
In German, homesickness and wanderlust are twinned words — heimweh, aching for home, and fernweh, aching to be away.
"I started this [project] in my freshman year because of homesickness," said the gamer in an online blogpost.
She was an immigrant hungry for connections who gradually settled upon cooking as her way out of homesickness.
The word "nostalgia" is a portmanteau drawn from Greek that translates to something like "ache for home," or homesickness.
Practical and also curbs homesickness, because no matter where we go, we're bringing some love-infused pink with us?
To me, homesickness is the bittersweet pang of longing you feel when you think about your hometown or country.
Photograph by Lauren Lancaster for The New Yorker It's a pleasure to inhabit Wang's homesickness, his memories, his palate.
Perhaps there was something inextricably rural and Southern in these men, some perpetual homesickness that needed to be indulged.
You sense that they arose from deeply felt experiences of longing and loss, homesickness, wounded friendship, love, and alienation.
But Kurt Vonnegut, that clown-poet of homesickness and Armageddon, might be the rare American writer who is both.
It had been that way for too long, and she realized Isaiah's problem had to be more than homesickness.
Then there are the lows of homesickness, when international students inevitably long for familiarity — and, in my case, samosas.
Exile, homesickness, lust, love: Homer's preoccupations are the central themes of many, perhaps most lives as they are lived now.
We saw Malik, a Brooklyn kid, conquer his fears on a waterski, and Caitlin, a young artist, overcome her homesickness.
It's only been one year since I've moved here, but I have yet to have any serious pang of homesickness.
A 2016 survey conducted by the U.C.L.A. Higher Research Education Institute found that 71 percent of college students experience homesickness.
"Homesickness," he told me, and I understood that he would live in that forest until he died in that forest.
Although she had never been much of a cook, she knew that she would need familiar flavors to combat homesickness.
There's the "normative" kind that makes you miss your mom when you leave for college, giving you pangs of homesickness.
That Thanksgiving break, in the depths of my homesickness and loneliness, she strode up out of the sea and saved me.
In my times of homesickness, I'd think back to the hotel and go research it in the library or make calls.
Mr. Singer admits to having felt a pang of homesickness at first, but got over it with the help of Skype.
She thinks, "with a mild homesickness," of the "everyday life" he is leading; hers has been subsumed by her political work.
One autumn morning, racked with homesickness, I strolled toward Les Halles and stood in the shadow of the St.-Eustache church.
Ruti Broudo was facing a crumbling marriage and a deep homesickness for New York when she decided to make a change.
Her classmates there said her English improved so much that she helped others cope with language difficulties as well as homesickness.
Nevermind homesickness, broken dreams and a gradual acceptance that the lives they wanted to build in Greece may materialize only elsewhere.
Her series, The Ache for Home, reflects not only the lateral hum of Midwestern America, but the vertical twang of homesickness.
On all the days in between, I chalked it up to a rare strain of homesickness and looked to relieve the symptoms.
This includes making sure camps are equipped to handle common problems like homesickness as well as social and emotional needs of campers.
Football Manager takes this idea even further, requiring that you deal with language barriers and homesickness—typical problems among global labor pools.
Her homesickness is second only to her longing for her son, whom an uncle said still lives there with her mother, Marissa.
In between games, the men speak of dreams and dashed hopes: homesickness and low pay are often the least of their woes.
"When I'm in New York, I always head for Schaller & Weber first thing to prevent an inevitable bout of Heimweh" — or "homesickness."
When homesickness set in during my first couple of months at school, I learned to persevere without the aid of my parents.
But side effects like weight gain are hard to undo, especially if combined with new access to cheeses and a debilitating, unexpected homesickness.
The new gig driving the raft between the mainland and the island balanced him between homesickness and homecoming, frustrated departure and indifferent return.
But according to Liz Sutton, senior associate director of first-year academic initiatives at Wharton, homesickness is more common that you would think.
When we were at boarding school, heavy with homesickness, those envelopes with his beautiful writing would bring with them a moment of relief.
There might be a homesickness bubbling up inside of you—let it come to the surface: Explore it, honor it, and share your truth.
I think loneliness and homesickness are huge emotions you battle as a female traveler, so our guides address community and how to meet people.
Without him the family members become increasingly unmoored; we feel Nour's homesickness intensely, along with her sense of not belonging in her mother's country.
None of the grampers interviewed for this article had to contend with much homesickness, possibly because their grandchildren were all in the double digits.
What makes the story touching as well as funny is that Vernon takes Bird's silence for homesickness and tries desperately to make him happy.
Then the homesickness might take them by surprise a few weeks later once the lust of the new freedom-filled environment has worn off.
Throughout the series, though she feints in other directions, Rory expresses constant homesickness and longing to be with her mom and with the town.
But the Finnish recognize that the emotion exists, and they gave it a name: kaukokaipuu, a feeling of homesickness for a place you've never visited.
But in the 1800s, among halls of the hysterical, delusional, and unintelligible, there were those suffering from a homesickness so extreme, it drove them mad.
Even in the real world, though, scientists are developing tools to soothe future astronauts who might suffer from the most extreme version of homesickness: Earthsickness.
For example, there are ones allegedly geared towards helping people cope with breakups, homesickness, panic attacks, public speaking, social anxiety, work-life balance, and more.
I imagine that they must occasionally zone out during the telling of yet another tale of mistranslation, homesickness, conflicting traditions, fuzzy communication or visa woes.
When nostalgia (that's what the show's title means in German) sweeps through the children's classroom in the late 1600s, their homesickness becomes a physical illness.
After the Fernández sisters and Ms. Rengifo came to the United States in 2800, they cooked traditional Venezuelan food as an antidote to their homesickness.
When I first landed in Réunion, the mountains had been my refuge from homesickness on weekends when I didn't have anyone in particular to see.
There is a peculiar kind of homesickness that is very specific to people who have such a strong attachment to a place they call home.
And for the first time, I decided to watch — in an attempt, as morbid as this will sound, to alleviate a particularly strong pang of homesickness.
"Immigrants of all backgrounds experience nostalgia, homesickness, a desire for companionship," Hanna Kim, an associate professor of anthropology at Adelphi University, said in a phone interview.
Without your childhood friends or family there to watch you blow out the candles, birthdays at college can trigger a profound sense of homesickness and melancholy.
While "UFO" is glassier and more expensive-sounding than anything on her first record, Mallrat excels when she's writing about complicated feelings like homesickness or anxiety.
"Detroit City," a wistful ode to homesickness written with Danny Dill, became a Top 10 country and Top 20 pop hit for Bobby Bare in 250.
Fortunately, there are several steps that students can take to confront homesickness head on and make sure that their college experience is one for the books.
You never know who else might be facing a bit of homesickness and by reaching out, you might just find yourself feeling a little less alone.
Alice's Celie is raped and beaten down by men in positions of trust, and Colm's Eilis is torn by homesickness, always longing for the place she isn't.
Poet Hala Alyan's fiction debut is the saga of a Palestinian family and the homesickness that defines their decades of displacement following 1967's Six-Day War.
He started as a freshman but homesickness made him transfer after his first year to Hardin-Simmons University, a conference rival of ETBU's based in Abilene, Texas.
Homesickness for a place you can never visit Levitate is more nostalgic than other Lone records, an appropriate quality given the specificity and intensity of its references.
After the birth of their daughter, Mr. Hamid felt a pang of homesickness, and convinced his wife to move back to Lahore to be near their parents.
Short notes scribbled by each schoolboy on smudged, yellowish paper showed both humor and homesickness as they sought to reassure their relatives they were in good spirits.
Aside from Barra exiting on the grounds of health issues and homesickness, CEO Lei Jun admitted that the company is entering a transitional period after growing too fast.
Subjects touch on topics that are, perhaps, to be expected in the context of a refugee story: persecution, fear, danger, lost family members, uncertainty, homesickness, longing, and disorientation.
And for me, even though we'd only been in LA for a week, my homesickness and doubt began to feed the seeds of a depression that was taking hold.
So while Barra puts the cause of his resignation down to a sense of homesickness, it's also inarguable that Xiaomi has struggled to live up to its ambitious goals.
For some, summer camp is undoubtedly one of the worst memories of their lives—a time of overheated adolescent angst, forced sports camaraderie, and an embarrassing dose of homesickness.
While Sita descends from depression into dementia, Alice channels her homesickness into her colorful house, which she names Brixton Beach, and her sculptures, which Tearne imagines with precise ingenuity.
Camila Cabello flaunted her desirability in "OMG" and, in the concert's only nod to Latin culture, hinted at salsa and homesickness in "Havana"; Ms. Cabello was born in Cuba.
Store-bought American hummus couldn't hold a candle to the homemade stuff from home, so to quell her homesickness, Manal pulled out her grandmother's recipe and began making it herself.
Unlike the reality shows before it, Bug Juice swapped the booze-fueled debauchery of The Real World for authentic first-time-away-from-home drama, from homesickness to first kisses.
Alizadeh also said she had not been invited to defect to Europe, but that she would "accept the pain and hardship of homesickness" over the "corruption and lies" in Iran.
Meditate regularly, in order to drown out the nighttime moans of homesickness and illness, as well as the desperate cries of the animals we have brought with us for food.
Ahead are seven pressing questions — from the "Freshman 15" to how to deal with homesickness — that you may have now or at some point along the way, with answers from experts.
I was afraid of loss, of course, but I also felt fiercely protective, and above all a homesickness and longing for the baby that our family would never get to meet.
Whenever some wild captive dropped dead within a thousand miles—a victim of sunstroke or virus, homesickness or honey-roasted peanuts—chances were that it would soon appear here, miraculously restored.
While her fellow university classmates tend to cry over homesickness, disappointing grades, and ill-fated college loves, Nong Am, whose real name is Siriluk Kaewcha, sheds her tears over Muay Thai.
However, taking a break and watching things that are popular on Earth could be considered self-care for astronauts since it's a potential way to treat feelings of homesickness or loneliness.
It's a film about homesickness, in other words, a feeling we tend to take rather lightly today — it's a childish emotion, the stuff of summer camps and (maybe) freshman college dorm rooms.
The effect, Cole said, is dorm room-esque: no frames, just signs taped to the walls of whitewashed cinder blocks, offset by the occasional flag, all meant to keep homesickness at bay.
Meanwhile, moonstone has a longstanding reputation as a "traveler's stone," Askinosie says, explaining that it's believed to bring good fortune to the user, lift their spirits, and even ward off feelings of homesickness.
A startup called Goldbely recognizes that those cravings are real and those special dishes or foods have the power to make your feel so much better when battling a serious bout of homesickness.
When you're in your room, the credits for last episode of your favorite Netflix drama start to roll, and homesickness starts to strike, take turns leaning on your old a new support system.
My first three months in DC were hard: I struggled with homesickness in a place where I virtually knew no one, and I was reeling from the end of a two-year relationship.
Halfway through reading Orhan Pamuk's latest novel, A Strangeness in My Mind, I booked a one-way flight back home to my native Turkey, stabbed with homesickness and with tears in my eyes.
"For many young women, frustration over their pay, combined with homesickness and other aspects of factory life, has led to a sense of alienation and lack of commitment to working productively," says the report.
It's spectacular, and as I glance from the lofty arch of the viaducts to the small homey dwellings on the edge of town, I'm clutched by a feeling I'm surprised to recognize as homesickness.
It's called Faraday Bar, and it's the light in the middle of dark Antarctic winters, the center of every celebration, release, and spell of homesickness for the rotating residents of the Vernadsky Research Base.
As I grew older, I had to live in harsh, cold foreign lands, where the taste of pita and other packaged breads bought from Asian shops left the taste of homesickness in my mouth.
Al Hussein's monologues and his depictions of daily life at the shelter reflects the uncertainty, the homesickness and the hope for a new future which overshadow refugees' lives while waiting for their asylum applications.
The artist himself also encouraged this kind of response to his work by employing in this final project old fashioned themes such as death defying risk, the lust for adventure, and the pathos of homesickness.
Joni Mitchell: "California" (1971) Homesickness defines "California," written by a Canadian songwriter who had made Southern California her new home and had found an admiring peer group among the songwriters around Los Angeles's Laurel Canyon.
I was possessed of a rootless homesickness that translated quite neatly, for a religious eleven-year-old, into heaven-longing; later it would translate quite neatly, for a nervous thirty- one-year-old, into transsexuality.
He wanted young soldiers to forget their fear and homesickness and find stomach for the fight, and fretted on their behalf when they could not pursue the enemy or were held back by politics at home.
It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement.
"Now we're going to celebrate and party really hard in our hometown Engelberg, but it has to wait because I've got three more weeks of World Cup skiing," she added before a moment of homesickness broke through.
Not homesickness for the time I left, but a paradoxical longing to live here—in one of those sweet little cottages, in the shadow of those graceful marvels of architecture, in all this empty, empty, empty space.
Days punctuated by medical care — for Ms. Edwards, three rounds of dialysis a week, each lasting at least three hours — may offer little else but bouts of boredom, homesickness and ceaseless, and saddening questions about the future.
The zoo's staff believes that the monkey ultimately wants to be back home and that a mix of bad weather, lack of food and homesickness will draw him back to his enclosure, if they don't catch him first.
"I'm thinking of changing my major," I later blurted to the small group of three, thinking of the books I had seen on the professor's bookshelf and the way I had felt after purging my homesickness with words.
The short explanation for this is that the Western world had become more mobilized; leaving home was no longer uncommon, and homesickness was at odds with the adventurous spirit many in the early 20th century strove to exude.
Ivy had been in New York for a third of the time that Emma had, and she sensed that Emma, who had progressed to a later stage of homesickness, didn't need her as much as she needed Emma.
Despite being an excellent student with strong leadership skills and a lifelong desire to serve her country, Ashley Iorio had a tough time battling the pain of the romantic split and her homesickness during that summer of 2012.
The only downside was that I missed my family, and developed severe homesickness when it started to affect my studies and my training, my dad came up with the idea to move his own father and mother to Tucson.
Based on Díaz's own experiences as a Dominican immigrant who moved to New Jersey, the 10 short stories in "Drown" perfectly tell of the struggles the New Jersey immigrant community faces, from poverty to homesickness to the language barrier.
After moving to Toronto just before my 19th birthday, still holding onto the reserved nature that kept me from showing any cleavage whatsoever, I reverted to socializing with my Pakistani peers from back home due to the intensity of my homesickness.
Ms. Chow, who was raised in Taiwan and began learning English at 12 when she moved to the United States, said speaking a native language allows people to connect with one another, establish a feeling of home and combat homesickness.
And so a kind of sorority unfolds day after day, birth after birth: women like Ms. Yupanik sharing the final month of the journey through discomfort, homesickness and joy, almost all of them a plane ride away from their families.
For a young refugee named Bashar al-Sulaiman — who has learned German, found local roommates and assimilated at a blazing clip — integration is both a challenge and an adventure, leavened with homesickness and permeated with a sense of constant dislocation.
And yet they are also children, who sometimes deal with homesickness when they first arrive, and with the emotional and physical ups and downs of puberty as they prepare to leave; many of them go on to private schools nationwide.
It can also mean a kind of highly specified version of wanderlust, a "craving for a distant land" — dreaming from your desk about some far-off place like New Zealand, or the Hawaiian Islands, or Machu Picchu, with an intensity that feels almost like homesickness.
The studies are vital, because even the simulated Martian environment can be a lonely and frustrating place, as the New Yorker described last year: The HI-SEAS crew members have not been immune to homesickness, or to the pressures of monotony and enclosed space.
Exhibit A in Silver's case are the owner Dan Gilbert's Cavs, who in 22012, 22014 and 22017 enjoyed an unprecedented run of lottery night No. 763 luck and still were essentially nowhere until James surrendered to homesickness and returned to his native Northeast Ohio.
Given my human scale, I dominated the space of the grounded birds and that struck me as aberrant, even evoking Glenn Albrecht's term, solastalgia, which describes the homesickness felt by people whose natural landscapes have been transformed about them by forces beyond their control.
But it always brought back to me trips with these same people to my summer camp in West Virginia, the melancholy bridge ("driving down the road I get a feeling that I should have been home yesterday, yesterday") evoking the mix of homesickness and excitement that traveling gave me.
But for people who are on the road for long stretches at a time, the most persistent affliction can be a kind of homesickness—missing the ability to cook breakfast and dinner, to chat with neighbours, to experience a home's quirks and personality that even the finest hotel rooms lack.
Homesickness, of course, has been a part of the human experience for as long as people have been leaving home, with recorded reports appearing in stories of the Greek soldiers who served in the Trojan War, writes philosopher Tiffany Watt Smith in her forthcoming book, The Book of Human Emotions.
But for about 200 years after Hofer wrote that initial paper, the word was a medical term that meant an intense, and potentially dangerous, longing for home, although doctors never quite agreed upon the symptoms, explained Susan Matt, a historian at Weber State University and the author of Homesickness: An American History.
All three are characterized by a mood of free-floating homesickness, as well as the interplay of German anomie and American popular culture; all of them star the craggy, bemused Rüdiger Vogler, feature Mr. Wenders's wife at the time, Lisa Kreuzer (sometimes billed as Elisabeth Kreuzer), and show a remarkable eye for landscape.
As personal goals like securing a lease, navigating an unfamiliar office culture, making new friends, and dealing with homesickness took priority, old habits like spending 30 minutes applying a laundry list of beauty products felt less and less important (despite the need to cover up the outbreak of blemishes on my face).
When we spoke after the shoot, the artist Laila Gohar recalled making baklava to stave off homesickness after leaving Egypt, and Sibblies Drury, who is Jamaican-American, shared her delight at finding fresh callaloo greens — for years in New York she had only had canned — at a Korean market in Bed-Stuy.
Penelope Farmer's 1969 novel "Charlotte Sometimes" (which inspired the Cure's moody, synthesizer-laden 1980s recording of the same name) opens with standard feelings of homesickness and shifting selfhood, but quickly turns fantastical when, on her second day at a new boarding school, Charlotte slips back in time more than 20053 years to 1918.
Whatever that grimy heartland might look like to a person privately, now it's easy to long for New York even when you're in it—a permanent kind of homesickness for the transplant and native resident alike, both of whom feel that something is not quite right in the city that, by birth or by choice, they call home.
Esther, with a rich Spanish accent, sang a Welsh hymn to me and told me how utterly Welsh she felt here in America, with a smile that brought a tear to my eye, making me think of my grandparents as a non-specific feeling of homesickness and vague grief welled up in me, the feeling we Welsh call hiraeth.
The coupling of Indian and Chinese, then, would seem like another superfluous mashup if it weren't for the fact that it was conceived not by overzealous food magnates but by Hakka immigrants living in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) more than a century ago, owing as much to homesickness as to a genuine affection for the sweetness and pungent heat of their adopted country.
A few years later, with a transition slightly less bedcentered, I might have described that feeling instead as this: after a number of years being vaguely troubled by an inconsistent, inexplicable sense of homesickness, I woke up one morning and remembered my home address, having forgotten even that I forgot it in the first place, then grew fearful and weary at even the prospect of trying to get back.
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