Yearn vs Lust - What's the difference?
yearn | lust |
To long, have a strong desire (for something).
* All I yearn for is a simple life.
To long for something in the past with melancholy, nostalgically
To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.
* Shakespeare
To pain; to grieve; to vex.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
A feeling of strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.
(archaic) A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual.
* Spenser
* Bishop Hall
(archaic) A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.
(obsolete) virility; vigour; active power
To desire very strongly.
To crave sexual contact urgently.
In intransitive terms the difference between yearn and lust
is that yearn is to be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn while lust is to crave sexual contact urgently.As verbs the difference between yearn and lust
is that yearn is to long, have a strong desire (for something) while lust is to desire very strongly.As a noun lust is
a feeling of strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.yearn
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) giernan, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Falstaff he is dead, and we must yearn therefore.
- It would yearn your heart to see it.
- It yearns me not if men my garments wear.
Derived terms
() * yearner * yearnful * yearnly * yearning * yearnsome * yearnyEtymology 2
See .Anagrams
*lust
English
(wikipedia lust)Noun
- Seeing Kim fills me with a passionate lust .
- The boarders hide their lust to go home.
- For little lust had she to talk of aught.
- My lust to devotion is little.
- An ideal son is his father's lasting lust .
- (Francis Bacon)
Derived terms
* bloodlust * lustful * lustihood * lustily * lustiness * lustless * lusty * lust murderVerb
(en verb)- She was lusting after the new short dress she set her eyes on in the shop.