hankers

Longs for intensely

Hankers is the verb form of hanker, meaning to yearn or long for something persistently.

The desire usually involves something out of reach or difficult to obtain: She hankers for the simplicity of her childhood, He's always hankered after a cabin in the mountains.

Often paired with after or for.

craving

longs

Yearns intensely for

craves · lusts · itches · aches · burns · desires · wants · needs · covets · fancies

nostalgia

pines

Coniferous needle trees

wistfulness · homesickness · melancholy · sentimentality · fondness · heartache · regret · languishes · sighs · aches

Categories
Opposites
emotional investment

hankersshrugs off

Dismisses without concern

couldn't care less

acceptance

hankersaccepts

Consents to receive

embraces · lets go · relinquishes · renounces · releases

emotional attachment

hankersrejects

Refuses or discards

spurns · shuns · avoids · abhors · disdains

Family

hankering, hanker, hankerings, hankered

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