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| Main Entry: |
longing
[lawng-ing, long-]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong desire |
| Synonyms: | ambition, aspiration, coveting, craving, fire in the belly, hankering, hunger, hungering, itch, pining, thirst, urge, wish, yearning, yen |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | appetite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire for food, worldly goods |
| Synonyms: | appetence, appetency, appetition, big eyes, craving, demand, fondness, gluttony, greed, hankering, hunger, inclination, itch, liking, longing, lust, passion, penchant, proclivity, propensity, ravenousness, relish, soft spot, stomach, sweet tooth, taste, thirst, urge, voracity, weakness, willingness, yearning, yen, zeal, zest |
| Antonyms: | antipathy, aversion, disgust, dislike, distaste, hatred, indifference, loathing, repulsion, revulsion |
| Main Entry: | aspiration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | goal, hope |
| Synonyms: | aim, ambition, ambitiousness, craving, desire, direction, dream, eagerness, endeavor, fire in the belly, hankering, inclination, longing, object, objective, passion, pursuit, push, right stuff, urge, vocation, wish, work, yearning |
| Main Entry: | craving |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong desire |
| Synonyms: | appetite, appetition, hankering, hunger, hurting, itch, longing, lust, munchies, need, passion, thirst, urge, yearning, yen* |
| Antonyms: | dislike, distaste, hate, indifference |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cupidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greed, strong desire |
| Synonyms: | acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, covetousness, craving, eagerness, graspingness, greediness, hunger, infatuation, itching, longing, lust, passion, possessiveness, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity, yearning |
| Antonyms: | dislike, distaste |
| Main Entry: | eagerness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm, anxiousness |
| Synonyms: | alacrity, ambition, anticipation, ardor, avidity, earnestness, excitement, fervor, greediness, gusto, heartiness, hunger, impatience, impetuosity, intentness, keenness, longing, promptness, quickness, solicitude, thirst, vehemence, voracity, yearning, zeal, zest, zing |
| Antonyms: | apathy, disinterest |
| Main Entry: | greed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overwhelming desire for more |
| Synonyms: | acquisitiveness, avarice, avidity, covetousness, craving, cupidity, eagerness, edacity, esurience, excess, gluttony, gormandizing, graspingness, hunger, indulgence, insatiableness, intemperance, longing, piggishness, rapacity, ravenousness, selfishness, swinishness, the gimmies, voracity |
| Antonyms: | benevolence, generosity |
| Main Entry: | hankering |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong desire |
| Synonyms: | ache, craving, druthers, fire in belly, hunger, itch, longing, munchies, pining, thirst, urge, want, weakness, wish, yearning, yen |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | hunger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appetite for food, other desire |
| Synonyms: | a stomach for, ache, appetence, appetency, appetition, big eyes, bottomless pit, craving, desire, emptiness, esurience, eyes for, famine, famishment, gluttony, greed, greediness, hungriness, longing, lust, mania, munchies, ravenousness, starvation, sweet tooth, vacancy, void, voracity, want, yearning, yen |
| Antonyms: | satiation, satisfaction |
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