physical longing
Frequency: 6.15.8 per million words
a feeling of wanting physical closeness or contact with someone
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Examples (10)
- She felt a deep physical longing for his presence.
- After weeks apart, there was an undeniable physical longing between them.
- His letters expressed a profound physical longing to be reunited.
- The song evoked a bittersweet sense of physical longing.
- Despite their intellectual connection, a strong physical longing persisted.
- The prolonged absence intensified her physical longing for him.
- She tried to suppress her physical longing, but it was too strong.
- There was a silent physical longing in his eyes when he looked at her.
- He mistook his physical longing for love, a common error.
- The novel beautifully describes the intensity of physical longing.