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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

YEARNING, YERNING, pp. Longing; having longing desire.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: prolonged unfulfilled desire or need [syn: longing, yearning, hungriness]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: before 12th century a tender or urgent longing <a yearning for justice>

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Yearn Yearn (y[~e]rn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Yearned; p. pr. & vb. n. Yearning.] [Also earn, ern; probably a corruption of OE. ermen to grieve, AS. ierman, yrman, or geierman, geyrman, fr. earm wretched, poor; akin to D. & G. arm, Icel. armr, Goth. arms. The y- in English is perhaps due to the AS. ge (see Y-).] To pain; to grieve; to vex. [Obs.] ``She laments, sir, for it, that it would yearn your heart to see it.'' --Shak. It yearns me not if men my garments wear. --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(yearnings) A yearning for something is a very strong desire for it. He spoke of his yearning for another child... He always had a yearning to be a schoolteacher. = longing N-VAR: oft N for n, N to-inf

Moby Thesaurus

Amor, Christian love, Eros, Heimweh, Platonic love, aching, admiration, adoration, affection, agape, ardency, ardor, attachment, bodily love, brotherly love, caritas, charity, conjugal love, desiderium, desire, devotion, faithful love, fancy, fervor, flame, fondness, free love, free-lovism, hankering, heart, hero worship, homesick, homesickness, honing, idolatry, idolism, idolization, languishing, languishment, lasciviousness, libido, like, liking, longing, love, lovemaking, mal du pays, maladie du pays, married love, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostomania, passion, physical love, pining, popular regard, popularity, regard, sentiment, sex, sexual love, shine, spiritual love, tender feeling, tender passion, truelove, uxoriousness, weakness, wishful, wistful, worship, yearnful, yen