flood of nostalgia
- noun
:
avalancha de nostalgia
- A warm flood of nostalgia suffused him.
Examples
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Walking through the old neighborhood triggered a flood of nostalgia, reminding him of his carefree days.
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Looking at old photographs brought a flood of nostalgia over her as she remembered her childhood.
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Hearing that song again unleashed a flood of nostalgia, filling her with memories of past summers.
Synonyms
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5.3
A warm, slightly sad feeling for a time in the past
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2.9
Pleasant thoughts about past times that make you feel happy and warm
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A sudden sharp feeling of missing the past
How Nostalgic
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5.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'a sudden and overwhelming feeling of nostalgia' is directly derivable from 'flood' used metaphorically as a sudden large inflow and 'nostalgia' meaning sentimental yearning; a learner who knows both words can infer this meaning. The construction 'a flood of X' (e.g., a flood of emotion) is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so this should be understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Flood of nostalgia paints a picture of a sudden flood of old memories and nostalgia is the feeling for the past, as if those memories rush in like water and fill you. So it means 'a sudden and overwhelming feeling of nostalgia'.