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Yearning vs Excitement - What's the difference?

yearning | excitement |

As nouns the difference between yearning and excitement

is that yearning is a wistful or melancholy longing while excitement is (uncountable) the state of being excited (emotionally aroused).

As a verb yearning

is .

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

    excitement

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) the state of being excited (emotionally aroused).
  • * E.A. Poe, '' The unparalelled adventure of one Hans Pfaal':
    • By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement .
  • (countable) something that excites.