yearning
noun
[ ˈjəːnɪŋ ]
• a feeling of intense longing for something.
• "he felt a yearning for the mountains"
Similar:
longing,
pining,
craving,
desire,
want,
wish,
hankering,
urge,
need,
hunger,
hungering,
thirst,
appetite,
greed,
lust,
ache,
burning,
fancy,
inclination,
eagerness,
fervour,
yen,
itch,
cacoethes,
yearning
adjective
• involving or expressing yearning.
• "a yearning hope"
yearn
verb
• have an intense feeling of longing for something, typically something that one has lost or been separated from.
• "she yearned for a glimpse of him"
Similar:
long,
pine,
crave,
desire,
want,
want badly,
wish,
have/feel a longing,
covet,
lust,
pant,
hunger,
thirst,
ache,
be aching,
itch,
be itching,
hanker after,
dream of,
fancy,
have one's heart set on,
be bent on,
eat one's heart out over,
have a yen,
yen,
be dying,
be athirst for,
be desirous,
suspire for,
Origin:
Old English giernan, from a Germanic base meaning ‘eager’.
