Send to a Friend

muhammajelly's avatar

In search of a certain Vocabulary word.

Asked by muhammajelly (562points) February 14th, 2013

I am looking for a word which is similar to nostalgic but with a different notion about the source of affinity. With nostalgia the affinity exists because of association with a prior “personally happy period or place”. Instead the word I am looking for shows an affinity due to a prior functionality.

Note: I would also be happy with an antonym for the word I am searching for. For instance when I take a crap in a toilet that won’t go down with a single flush and then attempt to wash my hands in an 0.4 GPM sink with water that only gets luke-warm and there is no towel to dry my hands I am not nostalgic for the old functionality but have contempt for the “new and improved”.

Using Fluther

or

Using Email

Separate multiple emails with commas.
We’ll only use these emails for this message.