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Longing vs Longer - What's the difference?

longing | longer |

As nouns the difference between longing and longer

is that longing is an earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire while longer is one who longs or yearns for something.

As a verb longing

is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective longer is

comparative of long.

As an adverb longer is

comparative of long.

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

    longer

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (long)

    • Adverb

    (head)
  • (long)
    • Derived terms
    * no longer

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who longs or yearns for something.

    • Statistics

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