Definitions for yearning
ˈyɜr nɪŋyearn·ing

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1. longing, yearning, hungriness(noun)

   prolonged unfulfilled desire or need

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1. yearning(Noun)

   A wistful or melancholy longing.

   She had a yearning to see her long-lost sister again.

2. yearning(Noun)

   rennet

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1. Yearning

   of Yearn

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1. Yearning

   Yearning is a collaborative album by ambient musician Robert Rich and sarod player Lisa Moskow. It is based on the classical Indian musical form known as alap. Alap is the first and slowest section of a raga. The music on this album consists of Moskow’s sarod solos set against Rich’s classic droning ambiences.

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1. yearning

   Song lyrics by yearning -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by yearning on the Lyrics.com website.

How to pronounce yearning?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of yearning in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of yearning in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of yearning in a Sentence

1. Beau Biden:

   Bernie is speaking to a yearning that is deep and real and he has credibility on it, and that is the absolute enormous concentration of wealth in a small group of people with the new class now being able to be shown being left out.

2. Read MoreHe:

   But Judy Garland paid a price in a childhood lost to Hollywood, an emotional exhaustion and a yearning for a' normal' life beyond the rainbow.

3. Jean Iris Murdoch:

   The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

4. Dan Pallotta:

   The things we’ve been taught to think about giving and about charity and the nonprofit sector are actually undermining the causes we love and our profound yearning to change the world.

5. Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov:

   Listen, you dogs, the president and ministers, if only you knew how many boys, our brothers are here, waiting and yearning to return to Tajikistan to re-establish sharia law there.

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