Synonyms:
longing, yearning, hungriness
Meaning: prolonged unfulfilled desire or need
Usage examples
Her parents were gazing on her with yearning hearts.
He rolled upon his back and lay pathetically with crooked legs yearning upward, still smiling.
Repose the most perfect and in the form of all others the sweetest to a tender mother, lay before her and touched her already yearning heart to tears.
But Mrs. Barker got on bravely, with the support of his strong arm, and chatted away so delightfully that Corny would really have enjoyed the walk, if his soul had not been yearning for catamounts.
For herself she intended to go at least once a week to the little old church half-a-mile away from her home, to kneel there before the sunlit sanctuary, to meditate on sweet mysteries, to present herself to That which she was yearning to love, and to drink, it might be, new draughts of life and power.