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According to writer Joe Koenig, this kind of feeling — a “nostalgia for a past you’ve never known” — is called anemoia.
The Teens Who Listen to ‘Mallwave’ Are Nostalgic for an Experience They’ve Never Had - MEL Magazine Hussein Kesvani 2019
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nostalgia for a past that one has not subjectively experienced.
trendy coined word from the so-called "Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows"
July 6, 2020