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YEARNING

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• YEARNING (noun)
The noun YEARNING has 1 sense:

1. prolonged unfulfilled desire or need

Familiarity information: YEARNING used as a noun is very rare.

• YEARNING (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Prolonged unfulfilled desire or need

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

longing; yearning; hungriness

Hypernyms ("yearning" is a kind of...):

desire (the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yearning"):

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)

"Knowledge is power."
(English proverb)
"Each person is his own judge."
(Native American proverb, Shawnee)
"On this world there exists no such impossible tasks, they fear only those with perseverance."
(Chinese proverb)
"Better a good neighbour than a distant friend."
(Dutch proverb)

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