homesickness

See also: home-sickness

English

Calque of German Heimweh (“homesickness”, literally “home-woe”), equivalent to home +‎ sickness.

homesickness (countable and uncountable, plural homesicknesses)

The characteristic of being homesick; a strong, sad feeling of missing one's home (and often left-behind loved ones, such as family and friends) when physically away.

missing one's home or family

Arabic: حَنِين‎ m (ḥanīn), اِشْتِيَاق‎ (ar) m (ištiyāq)
Bulgarian: носталгия (bg) f (nostalgija)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 思鄉 (zh), 思乡 (zh) (sīxiāng), (colloquial) 想家 (zh) (xiǎngjiā), (literary) 鄉愁 (zh), 乡愁 (zh) (xiāngchóu), (dated) 懷鄉 (zh), 怀乡 (zh) (huáixiāng)
Czech: nostalgie f, stesk po domově m
Danish: hjemve
Dutch: heimwee (nl) n
Esperanto: hejmveo, nostalgio
Finnish: koti-ikävä (fi)
French: mal du pays (fr) m, nostalgie (fr) f, dépaysement (fr)
Galician: morriña (gl) f
German: Heimweh (de) n, Nostalgie (de) f
Alemannic German: Häiwee n
Greek: νοσταλγία (el) f (nostalgía)
Hungarian: honvágy (hu)
Icelandic: heimþrá (is) f

Irish: cumha (i ndiaidh an bhaile) m
Italian: nostalgia (it) f
Japanese: 郷愁 (きょうしゅう, kyōshū), 望郷 (ぼうきょう, bōkyō), 里心 (さとごころ, satogokoro)
Low German:
German Low German: Heemweh n
Norwegian: hjemlengsel
Polish: nostalgia (pl) f, tęsknota za krajem f
Portuguese: saudade (pt)
Russian: ностальги́я (ru) f (nostalʹgíja), тоска́ (ru) f (toská), тоска́ по ро́дине f (toská po ródine)
Scottish Gaelic: cianalas m
Spanish: nostalgia (es) f, añoranza (es) f, morriña (es) f
Swedish: nostalgi (sv), hemlängtan (sv)
Tagalog: pagkahidlaw, kahidlawan
Welsh: hiraeth (cy) m
Yiddish: בענקעדיג‎ (benkedig)