yearning
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5.5
- noun
- /ˈjɜrnɪŋ/
:
anhelo
- But over a period of time, believe me, the heart starts yearning for companionship.
- deep yearnings
- unfulfilled yearnings
- spiritual yearnings
And I had this yearning to want to find healing.
- And I had this yearning to want to find healing.
- Consider the long days and the restless nights, the vast yearning of the lonely and the lost.
- Your sexual needs and preferences all translate deep emotional wishes and yearnings and fears and wounds.
- Yeah, a yearning for a certain kind of status.
- Faith becomes a, as Hegel says, a sheer yearning.
- And since then it is the nature of our yearning to try to reunite into the one form.
- So energetic means you're aroused by anticipation and yearning.
- He uses the term appetitus so we can also sow appetites or yearnings for something.
- And that was so profound that how deep a yearning we all have to want to be understood.
- But the confusion is the yearning that can still be there for you around that relationship.
- In a nutshell, desire is your yearning power.
- I'm all about yearning and tension.
Examples
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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
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Before you met this person, you were a human being yearning to be loved and to love.
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Yeah, a yearning for a certain kind of status.
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And I literally have been like yearning for another book like that.
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And I had this yearning to want to find healing.
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And how do we understand that yearning for order in times of distress?
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And that was so profound that how deep a yearning we all have to want to be understood.
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Consider the long days and the restless nights, the vast yearning of the lonely and the lost.
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It is about spiritual yearning, but it is also about intellectual yearning for truth.
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She felt a deep yearning to return to her childhood home and relive the happiest days of her life.
Synonyms
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1.6
A strong wish to have or experience something
474
1.0
A hope for something to happen or be true
110
4.2
A strong wish to reach an important goal
78
3.7
A very strong desire for things like food or cigarettes
69
4.2
A strong wish for someone or something you cannot have
31
4.2
A strong desire to do or have something
27
1.0
A strong desire for something you wish to have
11
6.6
A strong wish to have or do something
3
7.8
Missing someone or something very much and feeling sad
2
6.8
A gentle, sad feeling of missing the past
A very strong wish for more that cannot be satisfied
A strong, painful wish for something you cannot have
A strong feeling of wanting something that is not there
A strong desire to get or achieve something
A strong desire to have or do something
A strong desire for things like knowledge or success
Antonyms
How Desirous
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Yearning comes from the old English verb yearn, from geornian meaning 'to desire' or 'to long for'. So a yearning is a deep, long desire you feel inside, often for something hard to get.