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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Heimweh, aching, craving, desiderium, desire, fancy, hankering, homesick, homesickness, honing, hunger, languishing, languishment, mal du pays, maladie du pays, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostomania, pining, wish, wishful, wistful, yearnful, yearning, yen
Dictionary Results for longing:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
longing
    n 1: prolonged unfulfilled desire or need [syn: longing,
         yearning, hungriness]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Longing \Long"ing\, n.
   An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest
   wish; an aspiration.
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         Put on my crown; I have
         immortal longings in me.                 --Shak.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Long \Long\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Longed; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Longing.] [AS. langian to increase, to lengthen, to stretch
   out the mind after, to long, to crave, to belong to, fr. lang
   long. See Long, a.]
   1. To feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; to wish for
      something with eagerness; -- followed by an infinitive, or
      by for or after.
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            I long to see you.                    --Rom. i. 11.
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            I have longed after thy precepts.     --Ps. cxix.
                                                  40.
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            I have longed for thy salvation.      --Ps. cxix.
                                                  174.
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            Nicomedes, longing for herrings, was supplied with
            fresh ones . . . at a great distance from the sea.
                                                  --Arbuthnot.
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   2. To belong; -- used with to, unto, or for. [Obs.]
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            The labor which that longeth unto me. --Chaucer.
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