Usually means: Longing for home, familiar comfort.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word homesickness:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. homesickness: Merriam-Webster
  2. homesickness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. homesickness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. homesickness: Vocabulary.com
  5. Homesickness, homesickness: Wordnik
  6. homesickness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. homesickness: Wiktionary
  8. homesickness: Dictionary.com
  9. homesickness: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. homesickness: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Homesickness: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. homesickness: Rhymezone
  13. homesickness: FreeDictionary.org
  14. homesickness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. homesickness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. homesickness: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See homesick as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (homesickness)

noun:  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.

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