craving

[crav·ing]

A craving is an intense desire for something really particular. If you have a craving for pickled herring, a tuna sandwich just won't do. Must. Have. Pickled. Herring.

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Vehement or urgent desire; longing for; beseeching.

Noun
an intense desire for some particular thing


p pr. & vb. n.
of Crave

n.
Vehement or urgent desire; longing for; beseeching.


Craving

Crav"ing (-?ng), n. Vehement or urgent desire; longing for; beseeching.
A succession of cravings and satiety.
-- Crav"ing*ly, adv. -- Crav"ing*ness, n.

Vehement or urgent desire; longing for; beseeching.

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Usage Examples

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous.

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

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