ancienalgia
/ˌɑːnˌsjænˈældʒə/nounVerified NewNostalgia for a political or cultural order one personally helped overthrow.
Revolutionaries are often the first to miss the world they demolished; the sentiment surfaces once the old order's stability can no longer be felt, only remembered.
Etym. — *ancien (régime)* + *-algia* (pain/longing), on the model of *nostalgia*.
Rel. — chateaupunk
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