yearning

a very large or intense feeling of wanting something

a very strong and profound feeling of wanting something

a feeling of wanting something, driven by strong emotions

an urgent and almost hopeless feeling of wanting something

a feeling of wanting to return to a happy time in the past

a deep emotional desire related to love or an idealized situation

a feeling of gentle, sad longing for something in the past

a deep desire for connection with a higher power or purpose

adverbial phrase indicating that an action is done with a feeling of longing

to experience the emotion of yearning

to possess the feeling of yearning

to communicate or show one's feeling of yearning

to fulfill a deep desire or longing

to realize, perhaps unexpectedly, that you are feeling a strong desire

the most common way to specify the object of one's longing

a slightly more literary way to express a longing for something, often something lost or in the past