English

Noun

homesicknesses

1. plural of homesickness
   • 2004, Jigna Desai, Beyond Bollywood: The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film, p. 32:

     I explore how women's bodies reflect homesicknesses — the gendered social and physical illnesses that result from the production of home.

   • 1978, George Nauman Shuster, The Catholic Spirit in America, p. 187:

     It is well we should be reverent in their presence and homesick for them — but a thousand homesicknesses cannot put up what Carlyle called "my own four walls".

   • 1860, Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, p. 67:

     Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven ; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents.

Alternative forms

• home-sicknesses