longing

Other forms of longing

plural

longings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about longing

What does longing mean?

longing means "prolonged unfulfilled desire or need".

How many syllables are in longing?

longing has 2 syllables: lon-ging. The stress falls on "lon". In IPA it is /ˈlɔŋɪŋ/.

What is another word for longing?

Close synonyms include yearning, hungriness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is longing a common word?

longing is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with longing?

1 word rhymes with longing. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.