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Longing vs Wishing - What's the difference?

longing | wishing |

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

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

    See also

    * desire * miss

    wishing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making a wish.
  • * 1852 , Chambers's Papers for the People (volumes 9-10, page 167)
  • 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!