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Hankering vs Thirst - What's the difference?

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Hankering is a synonym of thirst.


As verbs the difference between hankering and thirst

is that hankering is while thirst is to be thirsty.

As nouns the difference between hankering and thirst

is that hankering is (often|followed by for or after) a strong, restless desire, longing, or mental inclination while thirst is a sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation.

hankering

English

Verb

(head)
  • * 2008 May 23, James Graff, " Lost: Labour's Love for Brown," Time :
    • [T]here is a clear sense that Britain is hankering for a change at the top.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (often, followed by for or after) A strong, restless desire, longing, or mental inclination.
  • * 1840 , , The Knight of Malta :
    • I found that he had dipped a little in chimerical studies and had a hankering after astrology and alchymy.
  • * 1849 , , Shirley , ch. 1:
    • Mike says he even likes to talk to him and run after him, but he has a hankering that Moore should be made an example of.
  • * 1861 , , Framley Parsonage , ch. 4:
    • One may say that hankering after naughty things is the very essence of the evil into which we have been precipitated by Adam's fall.
  • * 1904 , , Dialstone Lane . ch. 2:
    • "Some people are fond of a stay-at-home life, but I always had a hankering after adventures."
  • * 2010 Aug. 12, Michael D. Lemonick, " Study: Lucy's Relatives Used Tools to Butcher Meat," Time :
    • In other words, some species of human ancestor . . . not only had a hankering for meat, which scientists had not expected, but used tools to get it.

    Synonyms

    * craving

    Anagrams

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    thirst

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
    • "We haven't one chance for life in a hundred thousand if we don't find food and water upon Caprona. This water coming out of the cliff is not salt; but neither is it fit to drink, though each of us has drunk. It is fair to assume that inland the river is fed by pure streams, that there are fruits and herbs and game. Shall we lie out here and die of thirst and starvation with a land of plenty possibly only a few hundred yards away? We have the means for navigating a subterranean river. Are we too cowardly to utilize this means?"
  • (figuratively) A want and eager desire after anything; a craving or longing; — usually with for, of, or after; as, the thirst for gold.

    • Synonyms

    * (figuratively) craving, longing

    See also

    * hunger

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be thirsty.
  • * Bible, Exodus xvii. 3
    • The people thirsted there for water.
  • To desire.
  • * Bible, Psalms xlii. 2
    • My soul thirsteth for the living God.
    I thirst for knowledge and education will sate me.

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