Antonyms for longing
ˈlɔŋ ɪŋ, ˈlɒŋ-long·ing

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1. longingnoun

   Synonyms:
   yearning

2. longingnoun

   An earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire.

   Synonyms:
   yearning

3. longingnoun

   The buying of a financial instrument with the expectation that its value will rise

   Synonyms:
   yearning

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1. longing

   Appetite is used only of the demands of the physical system, unless otherwise expressly stated, as when we say an appetite for knowledge; passion includes all excitable impulses of our nature, as anger, fear, love, hatred, etc. Appetite is thus more animal than passion; and when we speak of passions and appetites as conjoined or contrasted, we think of the appetites as wholly physical and of the passions as, in part at least, mental or spiritual. We say an appetite for food, a passion for fame. Compare DESIRE.

   Compare ANTIPATHY.

   Antonyms:
   antipathy, aversion, detestation, disgust, dislike, disrelish, distaste, hatred, indifference, loathing, repugnance, repulsion

   Synonyms:
   appetency, appetite, craving, desire, disposition, impulse, inclination, liking, lust, passion, proclivity, proneness, propensity, relish, thirst, zest

   Preposition:
   He had an insatiable appetite for the marvellous.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. longing

   Antonyms:
   indifference, repugnance, aversion

   Synonyms:
   eagerness, desire, aspiration, craving, yearning, wishing

Matched Categories

1. • Desire

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. longing, yearning, hungrinessnoun

   prolonged unfulfilled desire or need

   Synonyms:
   yearning, hungriness, hunger, thirst, thirstiness

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1. longingnoun

   Synonyms:
   yearning, craving

How to use longing in a sentence?

1. Agatha Christie:

   Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

2. John Koenig:

   Another part of you is already an old man, looking back on things. Waiting at the door for his granddaughter who’s trying to make her way home for a visit. You are two people still separated by an ocean of time, part of you bursting to talk about what you saw, part of you longing to tell you what it means.

3. Natalia Veselnitskaya:

   It is quite possible that maybe they were longing for such information, they wanted it so badly that they could only hear the thought that they wanted.

4. John Bellows:

   There are better opportunities than shorting the bond market like longing corporates.

5. Pope Francis:

   Wine is a sign of happiness, love and plenty, how many of our adolescents and young people sense that these are no longer found in their homes? How many women, sad and lonely, wonder when love left, when it slipped away from their lives? How many elderly people feel left out of family celebrations, cast aside and longing each day for a little love?

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