English-French translations for longing

• nostalgie
• alanguissement
• désir
  C'est l'occasion rêvée de répondre à ce désir. The time has come to respond to that longing.
  Le peuple zimbabwéen manifeste un profond désir de démocratie. The people of Zimbabwe have a deep-seated longing for democracy.
  Il y a chez de nombreux citoyens européens un désir d’engagement et de participation dans l’avenir de l’Europe. Many Europeans are longing for involvement, for a stake in the future of Europe.

Definition of longing

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

Related words

• belonging
• belongings
• longingly
• longing for
• belonging to infantry
• belongings estate
• belonging to the goddess Aphrodite
• belonging to the court