Definitions
prolonged unfulfilled desire or need
Word origin
From Middle English yerning, from Old English ġierning, ġierninge. Equivalent to the gerund (yearn + -ing). yearn comes from Proto-West Germanic *girnijan, from Proto-Germanic *girnijaną, from *gernaz (“eager, willing”) + *-janą, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to yearn for”). By surface analysis, yearn + -ing.
Used in a sentence
“She had a yearning to see her long-lost sister again.”
“I've got this burning, yearning, yearning / Feeling inside me / Ooh, deep inside me / And it hurts so bad”
“Mrs. MacClarty then took down a bottle of rennet, or yearning, as she called it.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Deep longing for something”8 letters
02“Deep longing”8 letters
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