English-French translations for yearning

• alanguissement
• aspiration
  La profonde aspiration à la paix et l'inquiétude face au programme nucléaire iranien sont sensibles, presque palpables, au Moyen-Orient. One can, in the Middle East, almost physically feel the yearning for peace and the concern about Iran's nuclear programme.
  Ceux qui croient que notre seul désir inconditionnel de paix amènera nos opposants à changer de voie et à faire preuve de lucidité ne rendent pas service à notre aspiration naturelle à la paix.Those who believe that our unconditional desire for peace alone will induce our opposite numbers to change course and see the light are doing our natural yearning for peace a disservice.
• envie

Definition of yearning

• A wistful or melancholy longing
• rennet

Examples

• She had a yearning to see her long-lost sister again.

Related words

• yearningly
• yearning for
• yearning for death