longing for's Usage Examples:

saudades) is a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for something or someone that one cares for and/or loves.

supposed fickleness and deception of women, and he laments the folly of longing for that which is unobtainable.

the subjects of resistance to occupation, exile, loss, and love and longing for homeland are also common.

scholar of English literature Verlyn Flieger calls the poem "a cry of longing for lost beauty", and relates it to the sense of alienation many of Tolkien's.

and the poem is described as a passionate utterance of his powerful longing for freedom.

Emotion of longing for a person, object or outcome.

eyes of Smyrniots boyoz became a symbol of their hometown or of their longing for it when away.

The yearning expressed in the lyrics was based on Mercer's longing for Judy Garland, with whom he had an affair.

swears there's no homesickness in the world like an Irishman's passionate longing for home and kin.

is a popular song from the American Civil War that expressed people's longing for the return of their friends and relatives who were fighting in the war.

the term "Titoism" is sometimes used to refer to Yugo-nostalgia, a longing for reestablishment or revival of Yugoslavism or Yugoslavia by the citizens.

for residents of Jakarta,[citation needed] including for those who are longing for clean air and natural scenery.

in France but longing for the creative climate she had experienced in California.

In the song she expresses the depth of her longing for California despite.

the RDP's launch, the party was "born in response to our people's deep longing for a vision, political direction and the rekindling of their hopes and aspiration.

Synonyms:

wanted; longed-for; wished-for;

Antonyms:

unwanted; unloved; undesirable; unwelcome;