yearning

[US]/'jɜːnɪŋ/
[UK]/'jɝnɪŋ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. nostalgic; longing; desirous
n. desire; nostalgia; sympathy
v. desire; long for; miss

Phrases & Collocations

yearning for

Example Sentences

They had a deep yearning for their homeland.

a nameless yearning for transcendence.

He looked at her with yearning.

the yearnings for romance and adventure that are awakened by spring.

He felt a great yearning after his old job.

All things, far from yearning to be re-united with God, had never left themselves and here they are, Dharmakaya, the body of the truth law, the universal Thisness.

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