English Dictionary

solastalgia

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌsɒləsˈtæld͡ʒə/

名詞

不可算名詞

A form of homesickness experienced when one has not moved, but one's environment has changed.

日本語の意味

周囲の環境が変化してしまい、自宅などの慣れ親しんだ場所でも、以前感じていた安心感や懐かしさが失われ、心理的に不安定な状態になる感覚。 / 住み慣れた場所はそのままでも、環境の変化によって感じる故郷喪失感や心のホームシックを意味する。

After the wetlands were drained and the skyline filled with concrete, I felt a deep solastalgia that made even familiar streets seem foreign.

湿地が干拓され、スカイラインがコンクリートで埋め尽くされると、慣れ親しんだ通りさえ見知らぬものに感じるほど深い環境の変化による郷愁を覚えた。

意味（1）

A form of homesickness experienced when one has not moved, but one's environment has changed.

There are many people writing and talking about extinction now, and about solastalgia, the psychic or existential distress caused by environmental change. Artists, musicians, dancers, and screenwriters are wringing profound solastalgia from the recesses of our collective subconscious and spinning its trajectory out into the light where we can get a better sense of it.