nostalgize
verbEtymology From nostalgia + -ize.
1
To treat nostalgically.
2
To revel in nostalgia.
- Appropriately enough for a crowd hung up on the fashions and music of the past, the nostalgizing began almost immediately.2007 September 10, Melena Ryzik, “The Last Night of Misshapes: Hip, Post-New-Wave and Through”, in New York Times: