HOMESICKNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does homesickness mean? 

• HOMESICKNESS (noun)
  The noun HOMESICKNESS has 1 sense:

1. a longing to return home

  Familiarity information: HOMESICKNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOMESICKNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A longing to return home

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("homesickness" is a kind of...):

nostalgia (longing for something past)

Derivation:

homesick (longing to return home)

 Context examples 

It is only a few miles away, and we imagined that, in some sudden attack of homesickness, he had gone back to his father, but nothing had been heard of him.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But after the boys were abed, he sat long before his fire with the tired look on his face and the 'heimweh', or homesickness, lying heavy at his heart.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In this one little was said of the hardships endured, the dangers faced, or the homesickness conquered.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)