noun
nostalgia; homesickness; longing for home
Literary noun expressing a deep, often wistful yearning for one's hometown or the past. More formal and less common in everyday speech than 郷愁 or ノスタルジア.
彼の詩には懐郷の念が溢れている。
His poetry is filled with a feeling of homesickness.
長く故郷を離れていると、ふと懐郷にかられることがある。
When you've been away from your hometown for a long time, you sometimes get seized by nostalgia.