Words at Play : 2014 Word of the Year
From Mad Men, Boardwalk Empire, and Downton Abbey to the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' arrival in America, this was a year in which entertainment coverage drove curiosity about the word nostalgia. But the annexation of Crimea (with coverage of "Soviet nostalgia") and the defeat of Eric Cantor (with discussions of “the politics of nostalgia”) also led to spikes in lookups.
Overall, lookups of nostalgia more than doubled this year.
Nostalgia comes from a Greek word meaning "to return home"; it originally meant "homesickness" in English.
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