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Yearning vs Athirst - What's the difference?

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In archaic terms the difference between yearning and athirst

is that yearning is rennet while athirst is thirsty.

As a noun yearning

is a wistful or melancholy longing.

As a verb yearning

is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective athirst is

thirsty.

yearning

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A wistful or melancholy longing.
    • She had a yearning to see her long-lost sister again.
  • (archaic) rennet

    • Related terms

    * yearn

    Verb

    (head)
    • English abstract nouns

    athirst

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Thirsty.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
    • Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.
  • * Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
    • To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year, but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner
  • (figuratively) Eager or extremely desirous (for something).

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