NOSTALGIA    懷古懷古

YEARN for SITUATIONS IN the PAST as GOOD:better IN-RELATION-TO NOW:the-present.
NOSTALGICHOMESICK
Modern Chinese Criteria
懷古 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH /
Antonym
  • HAPPYCOMPLETELY DELIGHTED with one's SELF:own LIFE.
Hypernym
  • YEARN THINK of SOMETHING ABSENT so as to DESIRE it INTENSELY, LACKING HOPE TO OBTAIN IT. (anc: 13/0, child: 1)
  • THINK ACT USING ONLY the MIND. (anc: 12/0, child: 12)
  • ACT MOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision. (anc: 11/0, child: 24)
Other Hypernyms
  • SAD DISTRESS 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... (anc: 13/0, child: 7)
  • DISTRESS FEELING that one's SELF:own SITUATION IS INTENSELY BAD. (anc: 12/0, child: 5)
  • FEELING NATURAL REACTION IN one's MIND. (anc: 11/0, child: 17)
  • Le concept de nostalgie Diogene ( STAROBINSKI 1966) p.

  • C'était mieux avant ( JERPHAGNON 2012) p.

  • L'irréversible et la nostalgie ( JANKELEVITCH 1983) p.

  • Words (2 items)

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