Need and Yearning

Need

Need noun - A state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful.

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Yearning and need are semantically related In some cases you can use "Yearning" instead a noun "Need".

Nearby Words: needed, needs, needy, needless, needful

Yearning

Yearning noun - A strong wish for something.

Usage example: had a sudden yearning for something sweet

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Need and yearning are semantically related in desire topic. Sometimes you can use "Need" instead a noun "Yearning", if it concerns topics such as longing.

Nearby Words: yearned, yearningly

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How words are described

strong	strong need	strong yearning
real	real need	real yearning
constant	constant need	constant yearning
deep-seated	deep-seated need	deep-seated yearning
Other adjectives: religious, desperate.

Both words in one sentence

When the invitation comes - if, by miracle of impossible miracles, it comes - you have to say yes.There was such a desperate yearning for the magical in us, a need for it to be real, that even an offer like his seemed too good to be true.

Source: Roleplay / Terrascape Academy
We remember each and every moment of yearning, of desperate need, the anguish that comes when no amount of beseeching earns a single instant's reprieve, no pleading yields a moment's mercy.

Source: Literature / Dust of Dreams

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