nostalgize en · VERB
Etymology
From nostalgia + -ize.
Meanings
- (transitive) To treat nostalgically.
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(intransitive) To revel in nostalgia.
Appropriately enough for a crowd hung up on the fashions and music of the past, the nostalgizing began almost immediately.
2007 September 10, Melena Ryzik, “The Last Night of Misshapes: Hip, Post-New-Wave and Through”, in New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| nostalgizing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| nostalgizes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| nostalgized | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| nostalgized | Tense=Past | lexicographic |
Translations (2)
fi nostalgisoida (to revel in nostalgia) · es nostalgizar (to revel in nostalgia)