Forestalgia

An individual’s yearning for an idealized future. It is the future-focused counterpart to nostalgia.

The student had a profound feeling of forestalgia about his life to come after graduation.

by bobthecopywriter April 10, 2022

Forestalgia

fore·stal·gi·a
n.

1. A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations to come in the future.
2. To imagine what the future holds.

1. While sitting in class Razmig began having forestalgic dreams.
2. James began day dreaming of what the future could hold, he was overtaken by forestalgia.

by razmiga February 27, 2006

Forestalgia

The feeling of realizing something you fantasized about in the past has become commonplace.

I had an overwhelming feeling of forestalgia when I saw the Space-X Starship!

by Li Li Marleaux October 16, 2019