Definitions for homesickness
home·sick·ness

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. homesicknessnoun

   a longing to return home

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. homesicknessnoun

   The characteristic of being homesick; a strong, sad feeling of missing one's home (and often left-behind loved ones, such as family and friends) when physically away.

2. Etymology: Germanic: from home + sickness (from sick + -ness)

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Homesickness

   Homesickness is the distress caused by being away from home. Its cognitive hallmark is preoccupying thoughts of home and attachment objects. Sufferers typically report a combination of depressive and anxious symptoms, withdrawn behavior and difficulty focusing on topics unrelated to home. Experienced by children and adults, the affected person may be taking a short trip to a nearby place, such as summer camp, or they may be taking a long trip or have moved to a different country.In its mild form, homesickness prompts the development of coping skills and motivates healthy attachment behaviors, such as renewing contact with loved ones. Nearly all people miss something about home when they are away, making homesickness a nearly universal experience. However, intense homesickness can be painful and debilitating.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. homesickness

   Homesickness is an emotional state of longing or feeling nostalgic for one's home or familiar environment, particularly when away or separated from it for an extended period. It is often associated with feelings of discomfort, distress, or sadness due to the absence of close friends, family, familiar sights or routines. Homesickness is commonly experienced by people who are traveling, studying or working abroad, or have relocated to a new environment.

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Homesickness

   Homesickness is the distress or impairment caused by an actual or anticipated separation from the specific home environment or attachment objects. The term is in origin a loan translation of nostalgia, a learned term coined in Baroque period medicine. The Oxford English Dictionary describes homesickness as a feeling one has when missing home. Feelings of longing are often accompanied by anxiety and depression. These symptoms may range from mild to severe. Homesickness frequently occurs when one travels and may be exacerbated by unfamiliar environments or foreign cultural contexts. Homesickness is especially common in youth. Young people may experience a sense of dread, helplessness, or separation anxiety on their first day of school, summer camp, or on a protracted summer vacation away from the family. Many first-year students at boarding schools or universities also experience homesickness. Some new members on military basic training and members on missions or deployments might also experience it.

Matched Categories

1. • Nostalgia

How to pronounce homesickness?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say homesickness in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of homesickness in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of homesickness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of homesickness in a Sentence

1. Agatha Christie:

   Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

2. Susan Matt:

   Not all homesickness was necessarily going to kill you, but if you had a really acute case, it would qualify as nostalgia, there are lots of different sets of overlapping descriptions : a shortness of breath, palpitations of the heart, dysentery, fever, problems with the lungs. Or it was feeling an acute yearning, and then your body would start to close down.

3. Mohsin Mirza:

   I definitely miss the community environment. There are people whose faces you don't see except for a few months of the year, and this is one of those months, there's more homesickness now than there would be in another month.

4. Yi Mao:

   Festivals are the days when homesickness is at its worst, and Moon Festival is an important festival for the Chinese.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=homesickness
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Homesickness
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homesickness
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=homesickness