Thesaurus / yearning
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This may or may not show a national yearning to complain as a means of passing the time, and it hints that the complaining might continue even through this coronavirus-wrecked year when maybe it shouldn’t.
IN THIS UNHINGED YEAR, THE CFP SELECTION COMMITTEE FACES AN EVEN MORE INDECIPHERABLE TASKCHUCK CULPEPPERNOVEMBER 23, 2020WASHINGTON POSTEvery image is full of the deepest yearnings for freedom and independence.
IF YOU’RE THINKING OF A DRASTIC LIFESTYLE CHANGE, ‘OFF GRID LIFE’ WILL FEED YOUR FANTASY (OR KILL IT)TIM SMITHOCTOBER 30, 2020WASHINGTON POSTIt’s a yearning that’s become familiar during this pandemic, for those things I know I can’t have.
UNTIL I CAN GO BACK TO MY FAVORITE RESTAURANT, THIS JERK PASTE IS THE NEXT BEST THINGELAZAR SONTAGSEPTEMBER 25, 2020EATEREventually, he says, “there will be a yearning to meet new people once again, and when it’s safe to do so, we’ll be there at the ready.”
AIRBNB CEO: THE PANDEMIC WILL FORCE US TO SEE MORE OF THE WORLD, NOT LESSVERNE KOPYTOFFSEPTEMBER 7, 2020FORTUNEYet they’re also about many different types of isolation and the human yearning to not be alone.
TWO NEW BOOKS EXPLORE MARS — AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMANLISA GROSSMANJULY 15, 2020SCIENCE NEWSBut also it was an inarticulate yearning to find that state of safety where he and she dwelt secure from separation—in the 'sea.'
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODShe could have swooned, so intoxicant was her wonder and her solemn joy and her yearning after righteousness in love.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETTIt was the starving sense of loneliness, the aching sense of loss, the yearning and the vain desire that made it seem so long.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODThere were other causes entering into this unrest besides his yearning desire to win Ramona for his wife.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONHe longed for death with a full and yearning desire, and he could kiss the hand that would be merciful and give the fatal blow.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSSYNONYM OF THE DAY
JUNE 21, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO YEARNING
- admiration
- ambition
- appetite
- ardor
- aspiration
- attraction
- avidity
- concupiscence
- covetousness
- craving
- craze
- cupidity
- devotion
- doting
- eagerness
- fancy
- fascination
- fervor
- fondness
- frenzy
- greed
- hankering
- hunger
- inclination
- infatuation
- itch
- lasciviousness
- lechery
- libido
- liking
- love
- lust
- mania
- motive
- need
- passion
- predilection
- proclivity
- propensity
- rapaciousness
- rapture
- ravenousness
- relish
- salacity
- solicitude
- thirst
- urge
- voracity
- will
- wish
- yearning
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