Longing vs Wishing - What's the difference?
longing | wishing |
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
The act of making a wish.
* 1852 , Chambers's Papers for the People (volumes 9-10, page 167)
As verbs the difference between longing and wishing
is that longing is while wishing is .As nouns the difference between longing and wishing
is that longing is an earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire while wishing is the act of making a wish.longing
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* yearningSee also
* desire * misswishing
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(en noun)- Discourse there was none; only exclamations and interjections, and wishings , wishings, wishings that Bessy were but his own for ever — his dear, dear little wife, as assuredly one day she should be!