英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˌænəˈmɔɪə/
• 韻: -ɔɪ.ə

名詞

anemoia (uncountable)

1. (neologism, uncommon) Nostalgia for a time or a place one has never known.

   Synonym: fauxstalgia

   • 2015 November 15, Robert Trussell, “Awash in nostalgia”, in The Kansas City Star, volume 136, number 59, Kansas City, Mo., page 12D:

     Yet, from reboots to genre revivals, nostalgia remains a powerful force in pop culture. So does an associated phenomenon, called anemoia, which is essentially nostalgia for a past you’ve never experienced. Nostalgia and anemoia have been Broadway’s bread and butter for decades.

   • 2018 May 17, Shane Nyman, “Local guy’s ‘Africa’ remix perfects nostalgia”, in The Post-Crescent, volume 99, number 118, Appleton, Wis., page 6A:

     Goetzman (who also records his own own original music under the alias Raspberries and Rum) brought up another idea as a possible explanation for his Toto-based virality: anemoia. That’s the concept of a person feeling nostalgic for something they never experienced. […] What I can say is this little video and its embedded nostalgia — or anemoia — seems to be bringing a little happiness to people all over the world.

   • 2018, Trevor Harley, The Psychology of Weather‎, Routledge, →ISBN, page 102:

     A White Christmas is the perfect example of anemoia, nostalgia for a time we never knew.

   • 2024 January 14, Tim Adams, “The big picture: layers of nostalgia on London’s Oxford Street”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     The theme of that YouTube chat was the idea of anemoia, a niche form of nostalgia that prompts a yearning for a historical time and place that you have never actually experienced. Photographs can be perfect anemoia triggers, and this one works by layering retro longing from several different eras.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:anemoia.

参考

• nowstalgia

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