nostalgism

A political strategy that runs campaigns and appeals to voters based on an idealized and pleasant image of the past, often adopting policy that emulates that past. This happens when the party or politician has little substance of their own and hides behind nostalgia to cover up something else, like corruption.

JOZEF: Many Slovak politicians espouse a mix of economically left-wing and culturally right-wing beliefs.

FERO: It's because their primary voter demographic is older generations. Those guys grew up during a socialist economy and aren't so culturally progressive. They miss those days.

DEŽO: That's called nostalgism.

by pookapine February 23, 2026

nostalgac

New word I created: nostalgac

It means a deep emotional longing for the past — the feeling of nostalgia and being nostalgic combined into one word.

Example: Francis felt nostalgac watching old cartoons.

#nostalgac #newword #language #nostalgia

Nostalgac is a newly coined word describing the emotional experience of nostalgia and being nostalgic.

by Pranzzis February 26, 2026

nostalgize

the act of remembering things that feel nostalgic

“i’m going to go nostalgize in my room about my old friend.”

by crackedgoose August 14, 2025

newstalgia

Something that once deemed a novelty but is now deemed nostalgic, e.g. the aesthetic Frutiger Aero that was initially around from 2005 through 2014, after which it got to be "dormant" before it had a comeback in 2022

I was scrolling through old design trends and felt such newstalgia for Frutiger Aero; it was everywhere in the late 2000's and early 2010's, and now it's back in style.

by Emotional Cruiser September 28, 2025

nostalgic

"Nostalgic" is the best adjective to describe the era where the indigenous May-May tribe had once predicted that the apocalypse would happen on Tuesday, April 2nd 1991, which was going to coincide with the fasting month of Ramadan. At a later time, it eventually turned out that this D-day is just the end of the calendar of May-May tribe which had spanned for 5590 years, which is akin to the end of the Showa era and the beginning of the Heisei era that occured in Japan back in 1989 — as "apocalypse" is a concept coined by the modern civilization that is completely unknown to the May-May tribe.

It's nostalgic to remember that when I was a kid in the 1980's, I worried that the apocalypse would happen on Tuesday, April 2nd 1991, the day I was going to start high school in Japan — like what the indigenous May-May tribe had predicted. Guess, it now turns out that this D-day is just the end of the calendar of May-May tribe which had spanned for 5590 years, which is akin to the end of the Showa era and the beginning of the Heisei era that occured in Japan back in 1989.

by Emotional Cruiser October 22, 2025

NOSTALGICLY

To Rock the 'WAWA JUICE beside the fireplace, and Retrospectively summon the Somalian Prince's of Yore...

Padre enjoyed the Vintage Nuclear Red from the garage, then moved inside to the Fireplace to warm his Onion Ensemble, and Nostalgicly sip the 'Wawa Juice, telling tales of his online adventures Doom Scrolling Somali Uprisings

by Chilifart December 11, 2025

wanking nostalgic

the act of reminiscing about a bygone era or way of doing things in a manner that elevates oneself and one's experiences, while denigrating those who take an active part in modern events/trends/etcetera

When older generations call younger generations "lazy", "narcissistic", "entitled", and "disrespectful", while insisting that THEY were never that way when they were young, they're doing little more than wanking nostalgic.

"Everything was so much better when I was young. Kids these days are ruining the world/subculture I grew up in."
"Quit wanking nostalgic. Things were plenty fucked-up back then, too, and you know it."

"Back in my day . . ."
"Ignore Grandpa. He's just wanking nostalgic again."

by bellevoix April 11, 2014