nostalgist

English

Etymology

nostalgia +‎ -ist

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɒsˈtæld͡ʒɪst/

Noun

nostalgist (plural nostalgists)

1. A person who is prone to nostalgia.

   Synonym: nostalgic

   • 1944, Gladys Bronwyn Stern, Trumpet Voluntary, page 32:

     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.

   • 1964 June 20, “Souvenir Seekers Eye Penn Station”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     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.

   • 2009 January 23, Stephen Holden, “She's Back, and the Timing Is Uncanny”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     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.

   • 2021 June 10, Isabel Slone, “There Are No Fashion Rules Anymore”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN:

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