craving
noun
[ ˈkreɪvɪŋ ]
• a powerful desire for something.
• "a craving for chocolate"
Similar:
longing,
yearning,
hankering,
hunger,
hungering,
thirst,
pining,
desire,
want,
wish,
fancy,
urge,
need,
appetite,
greed,
lust,
ache,
burning,
addiction,
aspiration,
aim,
goal,
yen,
itch,
cacoethes,
crave
verb
• feel a powerful desire for (something).
• "if only she had shown her daughter the love she craved"
Similar:
long for,
yearn for,
hunger for,
thirst for,
dream of,
aspire to,
set one's heart on,
have as one's aim,
have as one's goal,
seek,
be bent on,
desire,
want,
hope for,
hanker after,
wish for,
sigh for,
pant for,
pine for,
lust after,
covet,
have a yen for,
itch for,
be dying for,
be athirst for,
be desirous of,
desiderate,
suspire for,
Origin:
Old English crafian (in the sense ‘demand, claim as a right’), of Germanic origin; related to Swedish kräva, Danish kræve ‘demand’. The current sense dates from late Middle English.
