Difference between Yearning and Longing

YEARNING vs LONGING: NOUN

A wistful or melancholy longing.
Rennet.
The feeling of one who yearns; a strong feeling of tenderness, pity, or longing desire.
A persistent, often melancholy desire; a longing.
Prolonged unfulfilled desire or need

The buying of a financial instrument with the expectation that its value will rise
An earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire.
An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration.
Specifically, in pathology, one of the peculiar and often whimsical desires experienced by pregnant women.
An eager desire; an earnest wish or craving.
A strong persistent yearning or desire, especially one that cannot be fulfilled.
Prolonged unfulfilled desire or need

Wishing, Itch, Dream, Eagerness, Ambition, Quest, Ache, Nostalgia, Aspiration, Lust, Thirst, Desire, Sad, Wistful, Longing

Ambition, Wish, Itch, Homesickness, Quest, Eagerness, Sense, Aspiration, Feeling, Thirst, Desire, Nostalgia, Lust, Yearn, Yearning

Thirsty, Anxiety, Wishing, Itch, Eagerness, Ambition, Quest, Ache, Nostalgia, Lust, Thirst, Desire, Sad, Wistful, Longing

Taste, Ambition, Wish, Itch, Homesickness, Quest, Eagerness, Sense, Feeling, Thirst, Desire, Nostalgia, Lust, Yearn, Yearning

My nipples strain and peak, yearning for attention.
From the dull earth her yearning spirit tended.
Every moment my heart for you is yearning.
But, you know, we are yearning for something.
Scottish yearning for independence goes back many centuries.
Hope is the expectation and yearning for good.
Yearning for new topics to learn and discuss.
In a case like this, the yearning is revealed to be an imposter pretending to be an authentic yearning of yours.
It is the psychologists that are boundry creeping with yearning and yearning to get prescriptive privledges.
Coronation song from Childs Play heart is sad and yearning yearning, burning just for you American.

Is it weariness, misery, longing, hope, despair, optimism?
Christians who are longing for their loved ones.
LONGING TO BE; w Sc m Valliere Hancock.
Hawkins managed to make obsessive longing sound sexy.
In this simile, the longing of a husband for his wife is compared to the longing of a shipwrecked sailor for the shore.
Her fancy for Frank Churchill represents more of a longing for a little drama in her life than a longing for romantic love.
Longing for Knowledge The second theme found in the data was a longing for knowledge.
Some days he would cry himself to sleep because of longing, longing for Junnice, for his parents and for his baby brother Gad.
But a dreadful longing for death assailed him, a longing like that which prompts men to leap when they gaze down a precipice.
Also his longing, because they all had longings, and his longing was to be a part of both worlds.