Meanings
nounhomesickness (countable and uncountable, plural homesicknesses)
plural homesicknesses · alternative home-sickness
Origin
- GermanHeimweh“homesickness”
- Englishhomesickness
Calque of German Heimweh (“homesickness”, literally “home-woe”), equivalent to home + sickness.
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Arabic حَنِين, اِشْتِيَاق
- حَنِين (ḥanīn)missing one's home or family
- اِشْتِيَاق (ištiyāq)missing one's home or family
Bulgarian носта́лгия
- носта́лгия (nostálgija)missing one's home or family
Catalan nostàlgia, enyorança
- nostàlgiamissing one's home or family
- enyorançamissing one's home or family
Chinese Mandarin 思鄉 /思乡, 想家
- 思鄉 /思乡 (sīxiāng)missing one's home or family
- 想家 (xiǎngjiā)missing one's home or family
- 鄉愁 /乡愁 (xiāngchóu)missing one's home or family
- 懷鄉 /怀乡 (huáixiāng)missing one's home or family
Czech nostalgie, stesk po domově
- nostalgiemissing one's home or family
- stesk po domověmissing one's home or family
Danish hjemve, hjemlængsel
- hjemvemissing one's home or family
- hjemlængselmissing one's home or family
Dutch heimwee
- heimweemissing one's home or family
Esperanto hejmveo, nostalgio
- hejmveomissing one's home or family
- nostalgiomissing one's home or family
Finnish koti-ikävä
- koti-ikävämissing one's home or family
French mal du pays, nostalgie
- mal du paysmissing one's home or family
- nostalgiemissing one's home or family
German Heimweh, Nostalgie
- Heimwehmissing one's home or family
- Nostalgiemissing one's home or family
Greek νοσταλγία
- νοσταλγία (nostalgía)missing one's home or family
Hindi ग़ुरबत
- ग़ुरबत (ġurbat)missing one's home or family
Hungarian honvágy
- honvágymissing one's home or family
Icelandic heimþrá
- heimþrámissing one's home or family
Irish cumha (i ndiaidh an bhaile)
- cumha (i ndiaidh an bhaile)missing one's home or family
Italian nostalgia
- nostalgiamissing one's home or family
Japanese 郷愁, 望郷
- 郷愁 (kyōshū)missing one's home or family
- 望郷 (bōkyō)missing one's home or family
- 里心 (satogokoro)missing one's home or family
Korean 향수, 향수병
- 향수 (hyangsu)missing one's home or family
- 향수병 (hyangsubyeong)missing one's home or family
- 회향병 (hoehyangbyeong)missing one's home or family
Latvian nostaļģija
- nostaļģijamissing one's home or family
Lithuanian nostalgija
- nostalgijamissing one's home or family
Norwegian Bokmål hjemlengsel
- hjemlengselmissing one's home or family
Persian غربت
- غربت (ġorbat)missing one's home or family
Polish nostalgia
- nostalgiamissing one's home or family
Portuguese saudade
- saudademissing one's home or family
Romanian dor de casă, dor de țară
- dor de casămissing one's home or family
- dor de țarămissing one's home or family
Russian ностальги́я, тоска́
- ностальги́я (nostalʹgíja)missing one's home or family
- тоска́ (toská)missing one's home or family
- тоска́ по ро́дине (toská po ródine)missing one's home or family
Scottish Gaelic cianalas
- cianalasmissing one's home or family
Slovak nostalgia
- nostalgiamissing one's home or family
Spanish morriña
- morriñamissing one's home or family
Swedish nostalgi, hemlängtan
- nostalgimissing one's home or family
- hemlängtanmissing one's home or family
Tagalog pagkahidlaw, kahidlawan
- pagkahidlawmissing one's home or family
- kahidlawanmissing one's home or family
Thai อาการคิดถึงบ้าน
- อาการคิดถึงบ้านmissing one's home or family
Turkish gurbet, yadlık
- gurbetmissing one's home or family
- yadlıkmissing one's home or family
Ukrainian ностальгі́я, ту́га за до́мом
- ностальгі́я (nostalʹhíja)missing one's home or family
- ту́га за до́мом (túha za dómom)missing one's home or family
Welsh hiraeth
- hiraethmissing one's home or family
Yiddish בענקעדיג
- בענקעדיג (benkedig)missing one's home or family
Cite this entry
APA
homesickness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/homesickness
MLA
“homesickness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/homesickness. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “homesickness,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/homesickness.
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