longing

UK /ˈlɒŋɪŋ/ US /ˈlɔːŋɪŋ/

noun 2

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

deep, desperate, great, intense, overwhelming, passionate, terrible, wild

He felt a deep longing for his family during his first year abroad.

sudden | hopeless

nostalgic, wistful

She felt a nostalgic longing for the carefree days of her childhood.

physical, sexual

VERB + LONGING

be filled with, be full of, feel, have

She was filled with longing for her childhood home after moving away.

PREP

~ for

She felt a deep longing for her family after moving to another country.

Definitions

noun

An earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire.

all natural lovings and longings

For round the valley a great desert lies through which no common traveller may come, but those whom the gods have chosen feel suddenly a great longing at heart, and crossing the mountains that divide the desert from the world, set out across it driven by the gods, […]

The buying of a financial instrument with the expectation that its value will rise.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — prolonged unfulfilled desire or need

yearning
hungriness

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

all natural lovings and longings

Wiktionary

For round the valley a great desert lies through which no common traveller may come, but those whom the gods have chosen feel suddenly a great longing at heart, and crossing the mountains that divide

Wiktionary

The rescued refugees were longing for freedom.

Tatoeba · #19583

Students are longing for the vacation.

Tatoeba · #21371

We are longing for world peace.

Tatoeba · #22868

Homesickness is a longing to go back to where you are from.

Tatoeba · #33711

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