懐郷
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Meanings
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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.