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Longing vs Lamentation - What's the difference?

longing | lamentation |

As nouns the difference between longing and lamentation

is that longing is an earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire while lamentation is the act of lamenting.

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

    lamentation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of lamenting.
  • A sorrowful cry; a lament.
  • Specifically, mourning.
  • lamentatio, (part of) a liturgical Bible text (from the book of Job) and its musical settings, usually in the plural; hence, any dirge
  • A group of swans.

    • Related terms

    * lament * lamentable * lamented

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