[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

yearn \yearn\ y~ern, v. t. imp.  p. p. yearned; p. pr. 
   vb. n. yearning. also earn, ern; probably a corruption of
   oe. ermen to grieve, as. ierman, yrman, or geierman, geyrman,
   fr. earm wretched, poor; akin to d.  g. arm, icel. armr,
   goth. arms. the y- in english is perhaps due to the as. ge
   see y-.
   to pain; to grieve; to vex. obs. "she laments, sir, for it,
   that it would yearn your heart to see it." --shak.
   1913 webster

         it yearns me not if men my garments wear. --shak.
   1913 webster
see also:
yearned yearning y- 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

yearning \yearn"ing\, n.
   1. prolonged unfulfilled desire or need.

   syn: longing.
        wordnet 1.5

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

yearning \yearn"ing\, adj.
   1. full of longing or unfulfilled desire.

   syn: wistful.
        wordnet 1.5

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

yearning
     adj : full of longing or unfulfilled desire; "those wistful little
           ads that the lovelorn place in the classifieds" syn: wistful
     n : prolonged unfulfilled desire or need syn: longing
see also:
wistful longing 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

73 moby thesaurus words for "yearning":
   amor, christian love, eros, heimweh, platonic love, aching,
   admiration, adoration, affection, agape, ardency, ardor,
   attachment, bodily love, brotherly love, caritas, charity,
   conjugal love, desiderium, desire, devotion, faithful love, fancy,
   fervor, flame, fondness, free love, free-lovism, hankering, heart,
   hero worship, homesick, homesickness, honing, idolatry, idolism,
   idolization, languishing, languishment, lasciviousness, libido,
   like, liking, longing, love, lovemaking, mal du pays,
   maladie du pays, married love, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostomania,
   passion, physical love, pining, popular regard, popularity, regard,
   sentiment, sex, sexual love, shine, spiritual love, tender feeling,
   tender passion, truelove, uxoriousness, weakness, wishful, wistful,
   worship, yearnful, yen

Yearning >> Y Words
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Official Yearning homepage
...It's all about Yearning ... ..
http://www.browse.to/yearning, score=100, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 6:52 pm

Love & Yearning Interactive | Freer and Sackler Galleries
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http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/loveyearning/, score=96, date indexed=December 21, 2005, 3:22 am

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http://www.darkyearning.de/, score=44, date indexed=December 30, 2005, 1:30 pm

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http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/loveyearning/default.htm, score=38, date indexed=December 21, 2005, 3:05 am

The Yearning to Merge by Susan Kramer
...19. The Yearning to Merge. The yearning to merge is innate Through ... We are given the strong yearning to merge in order to seek beyond our ... ..
http://www.susankramer.com/Yearning.htm, score=37, date indexed=January 19, 2006, 10:03 pm

Bill Moyers - Yearning For Democracy
...... me give you a few examples of this yearning.. During the Bicentennial ... ..
http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC30/Moyers.htm, score=35, date indexed=January 10, 2006, 5:16 pm

Yearning for Balance Views on Consumption Introduction
...Yearning for Balance is a report of citizen perspectives on the issue ... People's love of freedom clashes with their yearning for a more ... ..
http://www.iisd.ca/consume/harwood.html, score=31, date indexed=January 20, 2006, 6:16 am

THE YEARNING
...yearning and His Yearning, I thank God. I thank God for His yearning, ... Only He can truly satisfy the yearning, for He IS The. Yearning. He ... ..
http://www.somebodycares4u.com/yearning.htm, score=29, date indexed=November 24, 2005, 2:26 pm

Glorious Noise - That Burning, Yearning Feeling
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http://www.gloriousnoise.com/arch/000708.php, score=29, date indexed=January 20, 2006, 5:21 am

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