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Longing vs Capriciousness - What's the difference?

longing | capriciousness |

As nouns the difference between longing and capriciousness

is that longing is an earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire while capriciousness is the quality of being capricious.

As a verb longing

is .

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

    capriciousness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being capricious.
  • * 1827 Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill - Rationale of Judicial Evidence, Specially Applied to English Practice
    • To employ always the same witnesses, he would excite speculation, and expose himself to the imputation of fickleness or capriciousness .