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Longing vs Athirst - What's the difference?

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Longing is a related term of athirst.


As a verb longing

is .

As a noun longing

is an earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire.

As an adjective athirst is

(archaic) thirsty.

longing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire.
  • The buying of a financial instrument with the expectation that its value will rise

    • Synonyms

    * yearning

    Related terms

    * long

    See also

    * desire * miss

    athirst

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Thirsty.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
    • Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.
  • * Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
    • To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year, but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner
  • (figuratively) Eager or extremely desirous (for something).

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