longing+desire
31longing — noun a yearning desire. adjective having or showing a yearning desire. Derivatives longingly adverb …
32longing — n. Craving, yearning, earnest desire, eager desire, aspiration …
33longing — noun Date: before 12th century a strong desire especially for something unattainable ; craving • longingly adverb …
34longing — noun a) An earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire. b) The buying of a financial instrument with the expectation that its value will rise Syn: yen …
35longing — Synonyms and related words: Heimweh, aching, craving, desiderium, desire, fancy, hankering, homesick, homesickness, honing, hunger, languishing, languishment, mal du pays, maladie du pays, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostomania, pining, wish, wishful,… …
36desire — I. n. 1. Wish, will, aspiration. 2. Longing, craving, hankering, inclination, proclivity, impulse, drawing, appetency, appetite. 3. Sexual love, love, passion. 4. Brute passion, sexual appetite, lust. II. v. a. 1. Wish, crave, covet, want, fancy …
37desire — v 1. wish for, long for, desiderate, want; yearn for, hope for, care for, pine for, sigh for; hanker after, have a yen for, covet, fancy, have a fancy for; have an eye to, be attracted to, have a mind to, have at heart, be bent upon; be inclined… …
38longing — n wish, wishing, desire, desideration, want, wanting; yearning, hope, hoping, pining, sighing; hankering, Inf. yen, Sl. itch, fondness, liking, attraction; aspiration, ambition; inclination, predilection, preference, propensity, proclivity;… …
39longing — n. & adj. n. a feeling of intense desire. adj. having or showing this feeling. Derivatives: longingly adv …
40Argument from desire — The Argument from Desire is an argument for the existence of God. It is most known in recent times through the writings of C. S. Lewis, for whom it played pivotal role in his own conversion to theism and thence to Christianity. As a syllogism it… …
