Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A strong persistent yearning or desire, especially one that cannot be fulfilled.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An eager desire; an earnest wish or craving.
- noun Specifically, in pathology, one of the peculiar and often whimsical desires experienced by pregnant women.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
long . - noun An
earnest anddeep , not greatlypassionate , but rathermelancholic desire . - noun The
buying of afinancial instrument with the expectation that its value will rise
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun prolonged unfulfilled desire or need
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Examples
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But, though progressives know that, the longing is acute and the temptation to rebind themselves to such impulses strong.
What Obama Could Learn From Tony Blair Bret Stephens 2010
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Among other things, this longing is the unruly, "the surging, billowing sea" (Of Human Freedom 35) and the birth place that Schelling explicitly associates with the Platonic chora, a complex association that I have discussed elsewhere ( "Tropics of Negativity").
Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy 2000
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If "longing" is indeed one of the catch phrases of nostalgia, I wonder if ETA Hoff. and Goethe might fit your bill, too.
Every night, they say, he sings the herd to sleep Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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On the other I feel nostalgic in longing ways at times.
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If you go by the dimension beyond the body, the longing is to become boundless.
Sadhguru: Yoga: A Dimension Beyond the Physical Sadhguru 2010
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If you go by the dimension beyond the body, the longing is to become boundless.
Sadhguru: Yoga: A Dimension Beyond the Physical Sadhguru 2010
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If you go by the dimension beyond the body, the longing is to become boundless.
Sadhguru: Yoga: A Dimension Beyond the Physical Sadhguru 2010
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If you go by the dimension beyond the body, the longing is to become boundless.
Sadhguru: Yoga: A Dimension Beyond the Physical Sadhguru 2010
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Even though you will want it to, there will be a certain longing after.
I love. « 2008
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