NOSTALGIA  懷古懷古

YEARN for SITUATIONS IN the PAST as GOOD:better IN-RELATION-TO NOW:the-present.
NOSTALGICHOMESICK
Antonym
  • HAPPYCOMPLETELY DELIGHTED with one's SELF:own LIFE.
    Hypernym
    • SADDISTRESS ARISING from BAD THOUGHTS NOW IN ONE'S MIND which CAUSE one to LACK DELIGHT:joy.NB: The words I have chosen to include in this group pose special problems of contrastive analysis. There is something irretrievably diffuse about their usage, in many cases, and in many others the number of relevant examples in the early literature is so small that it is impossible to get anything like a firm grip on their precise semantics. Under these circumstances I have tried to compensate for lack of neat analysis with more quotation, especially from Chǔcí. Throughout this section I quote my teacher David Hawkes' translations, mindful of the fact that many of these were written in the third year of his study of Chinese...
      • DISTRESSFEELING that one's SELF:own SITUATION IS INTENSELY BAD.
        • FEELINGNATURAL REACTION IN one's MIND.
          • REACTCHANGE one's THINKING OR ACTING BECAUSE one is PERCEIVING something....
    Modern Chinese Criteria
    懷古

    rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH /

    Old Chinese Contrasts
    THREE PARTS:

    1. YEARN FOR THE PAST,

    2. BE DISSATISFIED WITH THE PRESENT,

    3. AND DESPAIR ABOUT THE FUTURE

    Words

    懷古  huái gǔ OC: ɡruul kaaʔ MC: ɦɣɛi kuo̝ 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • NPabpsychnostalig longing
    • VPipsychfeel nostalgia; feel nostalgic
    懷舊  huái jiù OC: ɡruul ɡus MC: ɦɣɛi gɨu 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • NPabpsychnostalgia

    Existing SW for

    Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database:

      Searching Wikidata

      Type: