Making Light:  Open thread 38 ::: March 25, 2005, 12:31 PM

sundre:

  has anyone got a pick for the opposite of nostalgia?

The answers you get illustrate the problem with the "opposites" game:
there are many different criteria to be opposite in.  Opposition to a
longing for features of the past could be, for example

* A longing for the future, for the present, or for any time that is
  not the past
* A sense of revulsion for the past, or to ephemera
* A lack of emotional response to the past, or more generally to
  time linkage

I suspect I've only scratched the surface.  If you really want a
word for something, what do you want that word to mean?