Yearning

Noun

 * 1) A wistful or melancholy longing.
 * She had a yearning to see her long-lost sister again.

Verb
yearning



Thesaurus
Amor, Christian love, Eros, Heimweh, Platonic love, aching, admiration, adoration, affection, agape, ardency, ardor, attachment, bodily love, brotherly love, caritas, charity, conjugal love, desiderium, desire, devotion, faithful love, fancy, fervor, flame, fondness, free love, free-lovism, hankering, heart, hero worship, homesick, homesickness, honing, idolatry, idolism, idolization, languishing, languishment, lasciviousness, libido, like, liking, longing, love, lovemaking, mal du pays, maladie du pays, married love, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostomania, passion, physical love, pining, popular regard, popularity, regard, sentiment, sex, sexual love, shine, spiritual love, tender feeling, tender passion, truelove, uxoriousness, weakness, wishful, wistful, worship, yearnful, yen

Noun

 * Arabic: شوق (shawq)
 * Armenian:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * German: sehnsucht
 * Hebrew: כִּיסּוּפִים (kisufim)
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
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 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish: anhelo

Related terms

 * yearn