Thesaurus / longing
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synonyms for longing
See also synonyms for: longingly
- ambition
- aspiration
- craving
- hankering
- hunger
- pining
- thirst
- wish
- yearning
- coveting
- hungering
- itch
- urge
- yen
- fire in the belly
On this page you'll find 77 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to longing, such as: craving, eager, languishing, pining, yearning, and anxious.
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Law professor sues George Mason University, challenging covid vaccine mandatePervading everything is a weariness with the virus, and a longing for more stable, certain times.
AS COLLEGE CAMPUSES REOPEN, MANY FACULTY WORRY ABOUT COVIDSUSAN SVRLUGAAUGUST 24, 2021WASHINGTON POSTIt was an unrealistic burden to place on statistics, but the longing for a mathematical seal of approval burned hot.
HOW THE STRANGE IDEA OF ‘STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE’ WAS BORNBRUCE BOWERAUGUST 12, 2021SCIENCE NEWSWe come to understand that the alternating flashes of love, rage, longing and frustration Fanny experiences in the course of her obsession with Linda are echoes of what she feels for the mother who so remorselessly abandoned her.
AMAZON’S DIVINE PERIOD ROMANCE THE PURSUIT OF LOVE GIVES CLASSIC SOCIAL SATIRE A MODERN TWISTJUDY BERMANJULY 30, 2021TIMEI preferred not to try so hard so that the longing did not dampen my spirits too much and not to end up with my soul rotten by depression and my eyes lost in memories.
LOCKED UP IN THE LAND OF LIBERTY: PART IIIYARIEL VALDÉS GONZÁLEZJULY 21, 2021WASHINGTON BLADEEach conversation was a slam to my longings, a slap that plunged me deeper into a sea of despair.
LOCKED UP IN THE LAND OF LIBERTY: PART IIMICHAEL K. LAVERSJULY 14, 2021WASHINGTON BLADEIronically, longing for something seems to shrink its duration in the mind’s eye.
WHY VACATIONS FEEL LIKE THEY’RE OVER BEFORE THEY EVEN STARTLGBTQ-EDITORJULY 12, 2021NO STRAIGHT NEWSHer lyrical prose roils with emotion as she reflects on love and longing, heartbreak and travel, the search for meaning and ultimately herself.
THE BEST SUMMER READS OF 2021ALLISON MCNEARNEYMAY 30, 2021THE DAILY BEASTSo dance has opened many doors for me, but I feel like always that longing to just not put telling stories in a box.
THE VERY MS. C.J. PERRY!EUGENE ROBINSONMAY 25, 2021OZYNone of About Endlessness is easy to explain in words, yet somehow the images, and the spare strands of dialogue accompanying them, unlock some of the little doors behind which we keep our own anxieties and longings.
ROY ANDERSSON'S QUIETLY GORGEOUS ABOUT ENDLESSNESS EXPLORES QUESTIONS FOR WHICH THERE ARE NO ANSWERSSTEPHANIE ZACHAREKAPRIL 29, 2021TIMEBy the novel’s end, Franny is left longing for the mother she never got to know and is disturbed by how much she doesn’t remember about the life they once shared together.
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THE REAL-LIFE INSPIRATION BEHIND NETFLIX'S THINGS HEARD & SEENANNABEL GUTTERMANAPRIL 29, 2021TIMEWORDS RELATED TO LONGING
- appetites
- ardors
- aspirations
- avidities
- cravings
- desires
- drives
- eagerness
- earnestness
- emulations
- energies
- enterprises
- enthusiasms
- fire in bellies
- get up and gos
- hankerings
- hopes
- hunger
- initiatives
- itches
- keenness
- longings
- loves
- lust
- moxies
- passions
- pretensions
- pushes
- right stuffs
- spirits
- strivings
- thirsts
- vigor
- yearnings
- zeal
- aggressive
- anxious
- ardent
- aspiring
- avid
- ball of fire
- bent upon
- climbing
- come on
- come on strong
- designing
- desirous
- determined
- driving
- eager
- eager beaver
- earnest
- energetic
- enterprising
- enthusiastic
- fireball
- get up and go
- go-getter
- goal-oriented
- hard ball
- high-reaching
- hopeful
- hungry
- industrious
- inspired
- intent
- longing
- power-loving
- purposeful
- pushing
- pushy
- resourceful
- self-starting
- sharp
- soaring
- striving
- thirsty
- vaulting
- zealous
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.