Homesick
/ˈhəʊmsɪk/adjective
Feeling upset or sad because of being away from home for a long period of time.
After a month at summer camp, he started feeling homesick.
Often appears as...
- feel homesick
- become homesick
adjective
Feeling upset or sad because of being away from home for a long period of time.
After a month at summer camp, he started feeling homesick.
Often appears as...
- feel homesick
- become homesick
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Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Homesick carries strong emotions, often a deep longing for home comfort.
She felt homesick and yearned for her mom's cooking.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Sad
'Homesick' isn't always about sadness; it can reflect missing positive aspects too.
I'm homesick for our family game nights.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary Feeling
Homesickness is usually a temporary feeling that diminishes over time.
She was homesick at first, but now she loves living abroad.
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Rose George: Inside the...
who, when I asked them to describe their job to me, called it "dollar for homesickness." They had good salaries, but theirs is still an isolating and difficult life in a dangerous and often difficult element. But when I get to this part, I'm in two minds, because I want to salute those seafarers
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The infamous and...
and many deaths were caused by exposure, malaria, and amoebic dysentery. Getting lost, starving to death, and the possibility of attacks by wild tigers or bears were constant threats. Meals were invariably just rice and salt, and it was easy to run out. Fear, boredom, and homesickness
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Why do we feel...
or even a longing to return to one's fetal state. But over the next few decades, the understanding of nostalgia changed in two important ways. Its meaning expanded from indicating homesickness to a general longing for the past. And rather than an awful disease,
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Our story of rape and...
I was welcomed into the home of a beautiful Icelandic family who took me hiking, and helped me get a grasp of the melodic Icelandic language. I struggled a bit with the initial period of homesickness. I snowboarded after school, and I slept a lot.
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12 truths I learned from...
And that's how we feel our people again fully alive. Also, the people will make you laugh out loud at the most inconvenient times, and that's the great good news. But their absence will also be a lifelong nightmare of homesickness for you.
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Mattias Klum: Lions,...
him that in the tree you know for my my climbing rope and like how are you my friend you know that I can sense what's wrong I'm homesick I'm homesick too I said well I'm I'm really homesick and then he I thought he
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Art can heal PTSD's...
my mission to help service members who suffered like my grandfather began to take form. We've had various names for post-traumatic stress throughout the history of homesickness, soldier's heart, shell shock,
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The history of human...
seem rather unambitious? You and I inherit that massive transformation in values, and it's one reason why we might not feel homesickness today as acutely as we used to. It's important to understand
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The Hidden Power of Sad...
our culture is afraid of the dark. And that all this normative sunshine can distract you from your rightful heritage. In Homer's "Odyssey," it was homesickness, it was the longing for home
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Beautiful Animation...
family your taste would make me feel at home you must homesick I keep thinking about my mom's Deranian and what she told me when you move a client from one place to another
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Rose George: Inside the...
who, when I asked them to describe their job to me, called it "dollar for homesickness." They had good salaries, but theirs is still an isolating and difficult life in a dangerous and often difficult element. But when I get to this part, I'm in two minds, because I want to salute those seafarers
Video examples
The infamous and...
and many deaths were caused by exposure, malaria, and amoebic dysentery. Getting lost, starving to death, and the possibility of attacks by wild tigers or bears were constant threats. Meals were invariably just rice and salt, and it was easy to run out. Fear, boredom, and homesickness
Video examples
Why do we feel...
or even a longing to return to one's fetal state. But over the next few decades, the understanding of nostalgia changed in two important ways. Its meaning expanded from indicating homesickness to a general longing for the past. And rather than an awful disease,
Video examples
Our story of rape and...
I was welcomed into the home of a beautiful Icelandic family who took me hiking, and helped me get a grasp of the melodic Icelandic language. I struggled a bit with the initial period of homesickness. I snowboarded after school, and I slept a lot.
Video examples
12 truths I learned from...
And that's how we feel our people again fully alive. Also, the people will make you laugh out loud at the most inconvenient times, and that's the great good news. But their absence will also be a lifelong nightmare of homesickness for you.
Video examples
Mattias Klum: Lions,...
him that in the tree you know for my my climbing rope and like how are you my friend you know that I can sense what's wrong I'm homesick I'm homesick too I said well I'm I'm really homesick and then he I thought he
Video examples
Art can heal PTSD's...
my mission to help service members who suffered like my grandfather began to take form. We've had various names for post-traumatic stress throughout the history of homesickness, soldier's heart, shell shock,
Video examples
The history of human...
seem rather unambitious? You and I inherit that massive transformation in values, and it's one reason why we might not feel homesickness today as acutely as we used to. It's important to understand
Video examples
The Hidden Power of Sad...
our culture is afraid of the dark. And that all this normative sunshine can distract you from your rightful heritage. In Homer's "Odyssey," it was homesickness, it was the longing for home
Video examples
Beautiful Animation...
family your taste would make me feel at home you must homesick I keep thinking about my mom's Deranian and what she told me when you move a client from one place to another
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Indian Author
I came into Chicago in winter - I'd never been so cold in my life! I was very homesick, and a poor student at that time. America seemed so different and so filled with amazing things - and almost all of them were out of my reach.
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Soren Kierkegaard
Danish Philosopher
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
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Louise Nurding
British Musician
One thing I wish I'd done differently in my career is insist on having friends or family on tour. I was really young when I travelled the world with Eternal, and I was always homesick.
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Tyra Banks
American Model
Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.
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E. W. Howe
American Novelist
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
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John Cheever
American Writer
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
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Robert Frost
American Poet
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
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Jesse Eisenberg
American Actor
I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.
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Kendall Jenner
American Celebrity
When I was a kid, I was so homesick at all times.
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Flying Lotus
American Musician
I get homesick driving to the grocery store.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Indian Author
I came into Chicago in winter - I'd never been so cold in my life! I was very homesick, and a poor student at that time. America seemed so different and so filled with amazing things - and almost all of them were out of my reach.
Quote examples
Soren Kierkegaard
Danish Philosopher
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
Quote examples
Louise Nurding
British Musician
One thing I wish I'd done differently in my career is insist on having friends or family on tour. I was really young when I travelled the world with Eternal, and I was always homesick.
Quote examples
Tyra Banks
American Model
Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.
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E. W. Howe
American Novelist
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
Quote examples
John Cheever
American Writer
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
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Robert Frost
American Poet
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
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Jesse Eisenberg
American Actor
I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.
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Kendall Jenner
American Celebrity
When I was a kid, I was so homesick at all times.
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Flying Lotus
American Musician
I get homesick driving to the grocery store.
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