Nostalgist

/nɒsˈtæld͡ʒɪst/ · noun

Meaning

A person who is prone to nostalgia..

Example Sentences

When I was a little girl, if they ever called me a backward child they must have meant a looking-backward child; for I grew up to claim the proud title of the world’s champion nostalgist.

The railroad also hears from nostalgists with fond memories of the station, buffs, who ask for such items as clocks and train gates and small boys who write in all the time asking for pieces of the floor.

After a seven-year interlude […] she has brought back the sweetly madcap nostalgist of her fondly remembered 2001 show, which opened at Arci’s Place, now defunct, on lower Park Avenue.

Of the possible postpandemic identities one can assume, there’s the early 2000s nostalgist in ironic Juicy Couture sweats, […]

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• nostalgists

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