longing

[longĀ·ing]

A longing is a strong feeling of need or desire for someone or something. If you're stuck in detention and all of your friends are outside enjoying a sunny day, you might be looking out the window with longing.

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An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration.

Noun
prolonged unfulfilled desire or need


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Long

n.
An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration.


Longing

Long"ing , n. An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration.
Put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me.

An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration.

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Usage Examples

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

Death is the great hope of all life the desire to expend itself to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

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Other Usage Examples

I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.

It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.

America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

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