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.
His poetry is filled with a feeling of homesickness.
When you've been away from your hometown for a long time, you sometimes get seized by nostalgia.
homesickness
Compound of 懐 (かい, 'to yearn for, to think fondly of') and 郷 (きょう, 'hometown, native place'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the spelling is conventionally associated with the meaning of homesickness.