longing
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appetency, appetite, craving, desire, drive, hankering, hunger, itch, jones [slang], letch, lust, passion, pining, thirst, thirstiness, urge, yearning, yen
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Writing poetry feels like that longing fulfilled, a line at a time. — Barbara Kingsolver, Washington Post, "How Barbara Kingsolver reignited her love affair with words," 27 Aug. 2019 Schumann’s pastoral idyll, with its forests and flowers, is still there, but this version gives new meaning to the gentle longing that runs through the work like a river. — Oussama Zahr, The New Yorker, "Fall Classical-Music Preview," 16 Aug. 2019 But repeating the formulation in the morning does mute the pernicious aspects of my ambition so that longing doesn’t get in the way of doing. — Ephrat Livni, Quartzy, "Use these mantras to start, power through, and finish your day," 10 Aug. 2019 Fantasy enchants, carrying us off into dream worlds that stir our darkest fears and sharpest longings. — Cate Mcquaid, BostonGlobe.com, "MFA takes visitors to ‘delectable’ fantasy worlds with two new exhibitions," 8 Aug. 2019 The announcement offers a green light to start layering the unborn person with signifiers: to plan outfits and decorate rooms, to imagine bonding rituals, to project your own insecurities and unfulfilled longings. — Carina Chocano, New York Times, "When Gender Reveal Videos Go Spectacularly, Cathartically Wrong," 1 Aug. 2019 But even without the exposition, the melodies are decipherable: There is love and loss and inextinguishable longing. — National Geographic, "In Corsica, on a quest for beautiful harmony," 24 July 2019 The app’s natural topics are babies and gardens, sexiness and ease, wistfulness and longing. — Collier Meyerson, WIRED, "Instagram Is Sweet and Sort of Boring—but the Ads!," 24 June 2019 From the playful banter with Benedick to the wistful longing expressed with Don Pedro, and most notably to the absolute fury expressed over Hero’s shaming, Podewell’s handling of the dialogue is especially inspired. — nola.com, "Wittiness and romance make ‘Much Ado’ quite something at Tulane Shakespeare Fest," 19 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'longing.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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