longings
Aches for something
Longings are deep, persistent desires for something absent or unattainable.
The word suggests emotional weight—not casual wants but aches that linger: She felt longings for the home she'd left behind, longings for connection in a lonely city.
Longings often attach to the past, to lost loves, or to imagined futures that seem forever out of reach.
Intense prolonged craving
- cravingPowerful urge to have
- wantingAbsent or insufficient
- achePersistent dull discomfort
- hungerNeed for nourishment
thirst · pining · coveting · lust · passion · infatuation · appetite · urge
Longing for one's dwelling
- wistfulnessTender sadness for absence
- reminiscenceRecalling past experiences
- memoriesStored past experiences
- hiraethBittersweet ache for lost home
melancholy · sentimentality · reverie · yesteryear · recollection · retrospection · bygone · past
Persistent dull discomfort
- emptinessAbsence of substance
- incompletenessState of lacking parts
- voidWithout legal effect
- lackDeficiency or absence
absence · deprivation · languishing · unrequited · unattainable · frustrated · bittersweet · sighing
Surpassing usual limits
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- connectionA joining or relation
- purposeReason something exists
meaning · fulfillment · wholeness · redemption · union · devotion · pilgrimage · seeking
yearning
Intense prolonged craving
hunger · thirst · pining · coveting · lust · passion · infatuation · appetite · urge · fervor
homesickness
Longing for one's dwelling
- wistfulnessTender sadness for absence
- reminiscenceRecalling past experiences
- memoriesStored past experiences
hiraeth · melancholy · sentimentality · reverie · yesteryear · recollection · retrospection · bygone · past · flashbacks
ache
Persistent dull discomfort
- emptinessAbsence of substance
- incompletenessState of lacking parts
- voidWithout legal effect
lack · absence · deprivation · languishing · unrequited · unattainable · frustrated · bittersweet · sighing · restlessness
transcendence
Surpassing usual limits
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- connectionA joining or relation
purpose · meaning · fulfillment · wholeness · redemption · union · devotion · pilgrimage · seeking · faith
- preferencespreferences, prefer, likes, like, liking
- Hidden Dreamsunfulfilled dreams
- imaginationimagination, daydreaming, daydreams, fantasies, fantasy
longingscontentment
Peaceful satisfaction with circumstances
satisfaction · fulfillment · satiation · gratification · contentedness
longingsaversions
Strong feelings against
repulsions · dislikes · revulsions · loathings · disgust
longingsindifference
Lack of interest
apathy · disinterest · unconcern · detachment · nonchalance
- longing forIntense persistent desire toward
- romantic longingHeartache for desired person
- spiritual longingDesire for transcendence
- unrequited longing
- wistful longingMelancholy desire for something distant