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Webster 1913 Edition

Longing

Long′ing

,

Noun.

An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration.

Put on my crown; I have
immortal

longings

in me.

Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition

Longing

LONG'ING

,

ppr.

Earnestly desiring; having a craving or preternatural appetite.

LONG'ING

,

Noun.

An eager desire; a craving or preternatural appetite.

Definition 2025

longing

longing

English

Verb

longing

present participle of long

Noun

longing ‎(plural longings)

An earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire.
The buying of a financial instrument with the expectation that its value will rise

Synonyms

yearning

Translations

melancholic desire

Arabic: شَوْق m ‎(šawq)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 渴望 (zh) ‎(kěwàng)
Czech: touha (cs) f
Dutch: verlangen (nl) n
Esperanto: sopiro
Finnish: kaipuu, kaipaus, ikävä (fi)
French: nostalgie (fr) f
German: Sehnsucht (de) f, Sehnen (de) n, Verlangen (de) n
Hebrew: כְּמִיהָה (he) ‎(k'mihá), כיסופים \ כִּסּוּפִים (he) ‎(kisufim), גַּעְגּוּעַ (he) m ‎(ga'agú'a)
Irish: cumha m
Italian: brama (it) f, nostalgia (it) f, desiderio (it) m, voglia (it) f, anelito m, bramosia (it) f
Japanese: 憧れ ‎(akogare), 切望 (ja) ‎(せつぼう, setsubō)
Latvian: ilgas f pl, ilgošanās

Lithuanian: ilgesys m
Malay: kehendak, hasrat
Norwegian:

Bokmål: lengsel m

Nynorsk: lengsel m, lengsle f
Persian: سودا (fa) ‎(sovdâ)
Polish: pragnienie (pl) n, tęsknota (pl) f
Portuguese: saudade (pt) for something absent only
Romanian: dor (ro) n
Russian: тоска́ (ru) f ‎(toská)
Scottish Gaelic: cianalas m, iarraidh m, fadachd m, miann m, f, ionndrainn m
Spanish: añoranza (es)
Swedish: längtan (sv) c
Turkish: özlem (tr), hasret (tr)
Urdu: اشتیاق (ur)
Welsh: hiraeth (cy) m

Related terms

long

See also

desire
miss