Usually means: Intense desire for something absent.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word longing:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. longing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. longing: Merriam-Webster
  3. longing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. longing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. longing: Collins English Dictionary
  6. longing: Vocabulary.com
  7. Longing, longing: Wordnik
  8. longing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. longing: Wiktionary
  10. longing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. longing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. longing: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Longing, longing: Dictionary.com
  14. longing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Longing (Bell Witch album), Longing (Dusty Springfield album), Longing (disambiguation), Longing (emotion), Longing (song), Longing, The Longing (video game), The Longing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Longing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. longing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. longing: Rhymezone
  19. Longing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. longing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. longing: FreeDictionary.org
  22. longing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. longing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. longing: Legal dictionary
  2. longing: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. longing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. longing: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. longing: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. LONGING: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire.
noun:  The buying of a financial instrument with the expectation that its value will rise

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