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Yearning vs Lust - What's the difference?

yearning | lust |

In archaic terms the difference between yearning and lust

is that yearning is rennet while lust is a delightful cause of joy, pleasure.

As nouns the difference between yearning and lust

is that yearning is a wistful or melancholy longing while lust is a feeling of strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.

As verbs the difference between yearning and lust

is that yearning is present participle of lang=en while lust is to desire very strongly.

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

    lust

    English

    (wikipedia lust)

    Noun

  • A feeling of strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.
    • Seeing Kim fills me with a passionate lust .
  • (archaic) A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual.
    • The boarders hide their lust to go home.
  • * Spenser
    • For little lust had she to talk of aught.
  • * Bishop Hall
    • My lust to devotion is little.
  • (archaic) A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.
    • An ideal son is his father's lasting lust .
  • (obsolete) virility; vigour; active power
    • (Francis Bacon)

    Derived terms

    * bloodlust * lustful * lustihood * lustily * lustiness * lustless * lusty * lust murder

    Related terms

    * wanderlust

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To desire very strongly.
    • She was lusting after the new short dress she set her eyes on in the shop.
  • To crave sexual contact urgently.

    • Anagrams

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