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Longing vs Lamenting - What's the difference?

longing | lamenting |

As verbs the difference between longing and lamenting

is that longing is while lamenting is .

As nouns the difference between longing and lamenting

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

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

    lamenting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • lamentation
  • * Shakespeare
    • The night has been unruly: where we lay, / Our chimneys were blown down, and, as they say, / Lamentings heard i' th' air, strange screams of death

    Anagrams

    * alignment