Yearning

[Yearning]

A yearning is a strong desire. If you have a yearning to travel in Africa, it means that you dream about it and intensely hope that one day you'll end up there.

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Noun
prolonged unfulfilled desire or need

Adjective S.
full of longing or unfulfilled desire; "those wistful little ads that the lovelorn place in the classifieds"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Yearn


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Usage Examples

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.

My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing joy, rage, fear triumph, yearning and confusion.

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Other Usage Examples

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

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