Feeling and Longing

Feeling

Feeling noun - A subjective response to a person, thing, or situation.

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Longing and feeling are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Longing" instead a noun "Feeling".

Nearby Words: feel, feelingly, feeler, feeing

Longing noun - A strong wish for something.

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Feeling and longing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Feeling" instead a noun "Longing".

Nearby Words: longed, longingly

many	many feeling	many longing
deep	deep feeling	deep longing
romantic	romantic feeling	romantic longing
constant	constant feeling	constant longing
Other adjectives: massive, intense, nostalgic, sick, beautiful, sexual, overwhelming, sudden.

Also, after losing their memories of each other, both Taki and Mitsuha often wake up crying, but without any idea why outside of a feeling of longing.

Source: Anime / Your Name
John confuses Lenina by not jumping her bones at the first opportunity; because of this, she ends up longing for him, and comes the closest she will ever come to actually feeling love in her whole pathetic, sex-saturated life.

Source: Literature / Brave New World
Although she is capable of feeling anger/happiness/longing/etc; she is unable to express these emotions to a great degree.

Source: Pick Your Human Half

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