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yearnings


Meanings
  • A strong feeling of desire or longing for something or someone.

    - "She had yearnings for a career in music."
    - "His yearnings for her companionship grew stronger every day."

Rhymes
Words rhyming with yearnings
yearnings , thornings , ornaments , mountains , paintings , rainments , stratagems
Variants
List of all variants of yearnings that leads to same result
yearning , yearnings
Etymology
origin and the way in which meanings have changed throughout history.

The word 'yearnings' originated from the Old English word 'giernian' which means 'to long for, to desire, to crave'. This word then evolved into Middle English as 'yearnen' and finally into Modern English as 'yearnings'.


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