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yearning

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yearn·ing  (yûrnng)
n.
A persistent, often wistful or melancholy desire; a longing: a yearning for romance and adventure.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.yearningyearning - prolonged unfulfilled desire or need
longing, hungriness
desire - the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state
hankering, yen - a yearning for something or to do something
pining - a feeling of deep longing
wishfulness - an unrealistic yearning
wistfulness - a sadly pensive longing
nostalgia - longing for something past
discontent, discontentedness, discontentment - a longing for something better than the present situation
Translations

yearning [ˈjəːnɪŋ] n → ansia (= longing); añoranza
yearning [ˈjəːnɪŋ] n → désir ardent, envie f
yearning [ˈjəːnɪŋ] yearn n to have a yearning for sth → ein Verlangen nach etw haben;
to have a yearning to do sth → ein Verlangen danach haben, etw zu tun
yearning [ˈjəːnɪŋ] n → desiderio intenso


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So the pot was placed in safety, but it was not long before the cat had a great yearning for it, and said to the mouse: 'I want to tell you something, little mouse; my cousin has brought a little son into the world, and has asked me to be godmother; he is white with brown spots, and I am to hold him over the font at the christening.
Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context
It is not I--'old' Trefethan--that talks; it is my youth, and it is my youth that says those were the most wonderful eyes I have ever seen--so very calm, so very restless; so very wise, so very curious; so very old, so very young; so satisfied and yet yearning so wistfully.
The Night-Born by London, Jack View in context
Their ardor alternated between a vague ideal and the common yearning of womanhood; so that the one was disapproved as extravagance, and the other condemned as a lapse.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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