Need an ANTONYM for NOSTALGIA - help me ILX, you're my only hope...

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Please? What, in a pithy single word, is the opposite of nostalgia?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 27 January 2005 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Apodemialgia.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 27 January 2005 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you make that up?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 27 January 2005 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

No you didn't. Fucking hell. Is that the only one?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 27 January 2005 10:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Hope?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 27 January 2005 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Possibly. Using apodemialgia makes it the most pretentious sentence I've ever written. Maybe a synonym for hope would fit.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 27 January 2005 10:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Antony M(iccio)

― amanda lear (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 27 January 2005 10:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I am currently plumping for anticipation instead. The context is "delirious nostalgia-qua-anticipation" should anybody care.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 27 January 2005 10:33 (twenty-one years ago)

wanderlust

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 27 January 2005 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

oh that wouldn't work then

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 27 January 2005 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the idea of Stevie standing there, perched at his keyboard, waiting years and years for that question. And then... STRIKE!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 27 January 2005 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Neophilia.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 27 January 2005 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"Between Neophilia and Nostalgia". That works!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 27 January 2005 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Nostalgia is Italian for homesickness. I like that it's more specific than in English.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 27 January 2005 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hard on for the future"

― Huk-L, Thursday, 27 January 2005 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

no, no... nostalgia is a hard on for the past, right? so it's opposite would be dread for the future. then again, not really, since future-dread and past-love compliment each other nicely.

so Daddino wins.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 27 January 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Premorse

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 27 January 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Apodemialgia

not in the Oxford English Dictionary. Where did you find this word?

― youn, Thursday, 27 January 2005 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=apodemialgia&action=Search+OMD

Seems apodemialgia is the opposite of nostalgia in the Italian sense.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 27 January 2005 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

no, no... nostalgia is a hard on for the past, right? so it's opposite would be dread for the future. then again, not really, since future-dread and past-love compliment each other nicely.

what would be a word for hating the past?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 27 January 2005 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Antony M(iccio)

neat!

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 27 January 2005 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Historiophobia?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 27 January 2005 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Kamandiscory

― Huk-L, Thursday, 27 January 2005 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Hostalgia

― Ferg, Ah (Ferg), Thursday, 27 January 2005 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Madmaxia

― Huk-L, Thursday, 27 January 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

In the sense of 'longing for home' - wanderlust, restlessness

In the sense of 'longing for the past' - avant gardism, forward looking

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 27 January 2005 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

coolness

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 27 January 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Antony M(iccio)

I thought he was calling for you!

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Thursday, 27 January 2005 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

wtf was I writing?!

― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

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