longing — English Dictionary

Noun

1. An earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire.

   Examples

   all natural lovings and longings

   More examples (1)

   For round the valley a great desert lies through which no common traveller may come, but those whom the gods have chosen feel suddenly a great longing at heart, and crossing the mountains that divide the desert from the world, set out across it driven by the gods, […]

2. The buying of a financial instrument with the expectation that its value will rise.

Noun

1. prolonged unfulfilled desire or need

   Synonyms

   yearninghungriness

   Broader terms

   desire