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longing::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | hungriness, yearning |
| Type of | desire |
| Has types | discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, hankering, nostalgia, pining, wishfulness, wistfulness, yen |
| Derivation | long |
Examples of longing
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I hope you have received my parcel alright I am longing to hear that it is safe.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The choreography is expansive and expressive, permeated with a sense of longing.
From the timesunion.com
People are longing for a time when there was a black and white and good and bad.
From the time.com
At times, during duets, their attitudes seem to freeze with unfulfilled longing.
From the guardian.co.uk
Longing for a czar is a symptom of our industrial age governmental organization.
From the businessweek.com
All around the area there's this longing to try to touch Detroit the way it was.
From the huffingtonpost.com
I have no longing for the past which I would not have been able to live through.
From the guardian.co.uk
Such language seems rooted in a nostalgic sense of longing for good times past.
From the economist.com
She could be longing for that again, just like kids who do something mischievous.
From the abcnews.go.com
- Prolonged unfulfilled desire or need
- (longingly) in a yearning manner; "he spent the rest of the act gazing longingly over my right shoulder at the illuminated word `Exit'"
- Longing was to have been Dusty Springfield's second LP for the ABC Dunhill Records label, and tenth studio album overall, recorded in 1974 and planned for release the same year. ...
- "Longing" is a song by X Japan, released in alternating versions as singles on 1 August 1995 and 1 September 1995 respectively. There are two versions of the song, "Togireta Melody" and "Setsubou no Yoru". ...
- The Longing (2003) was the final short film completed by award winning Australian director Alex Frayne. The documentary was independently financed and filmed entirely in Braidwood, New South Wales. ...
- An earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire; The buying of a financial instrument with the expectation that its value will rise
- Longing is lust of beholding someone who is not present.
- Primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified; "a long life"; "a long boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long"
- For an extended time or at a distant time; "a promotion long overdue"; "something long hoped for"; "his name has long been forgotten"; "talked all night long"; "how long will you be gone?"; "arrived long before he was expected"; "it is long after your bedtime"
