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.
The experience of homesickness, and the unaffordable cost of going home on a regular basis, has caused some of the respondents to discontinue their studies in Denmark.
People from all across the world, people of all races, walking up and down, alone or in conversation, happy or unhappy, homesick or embracing the dreams this city seems to proffer
Solving economic problems sometimes created new problems —homesickness, a strange language, getting used to new foods, different customs, fitting in with new friends, or coping with different attitudes.
At seventeen, Emily began to attend the Roe Head Girls' School, where Charlotte was a teacher, but suffered from extreme homesickness and left after only a few months.
We've had various names for post-traumatic stress throughout the history of war: homesickness, soldier's heart, shell shock, thousand-yard stare, for instance.
His landlady and friends checked with the police and the airlines, finally discovering that he had returned to the United States with a bad dose of homesickness!