Usually means: Intense longing or desire for.
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  1. yearning: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. yearning: Merriam-Webster
  3. yearning: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. yearning: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. yearning: Collins English Dictionary
  6. yearning: Vocabulary.com
  7. Yearning, yearning: Wordnik
  8. yearning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. yearning: Wiktionary
  10. yearning: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. yearning: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. yearning: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. yearning: Dictionary.com
  14. yearning: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Yearning (band), Yearning (song), Yearning: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Yearning: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. yearning: Rhymezone
  18. yearning: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. yearning: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. yearning: FreeDictionary.org
  21. yearning: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. yearning: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. yearning: Legal dictionary

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  1. yearning: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A wistful or melancholy longing.
▸ noun:  (Scotland, archaic) rennet (an enzyme to curdle milk in order to make cheese).

Similar:
longing, wistful, sad, woulding, wailment, pine, waymenting, lamentation, lamenting, will, more...

Opposite:
apathy, indifference

Types:
yearn, long, desire, want, wish, crave, pining, longing, more...

Phrases:
had a yearning, yearning desire, strong yearning, yearning for someone to be here, yearning for, more...

Adjectives:
deep, great, intense, passionate, strong, human, spiritual, vague, romantic, nostalgic, natural

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Similar:
longing, wistful, sad, woulding, wailment, pine, waymenting, lamentation, lamenting, will, more...

Opposite:
apathy, indifference

Types:
yearn, long, desire, want, wish, crave, pining, longing, more...

Phrases:
had a yearning, yearning desire, strong yearning, yearning for someone to be here, yearning for, had a yearning for, yearning to return home, yearning for past, yearning look, deep yearning, more...

Adjectives:
deep, great, intense, passionate, strong, human, spiritual, vague, romantic, nostalgic, natural

Colors:
    indigo,     mauve,     lavender,     burgundy,     teal, more...



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