yearning
/ˈjɝnɪŋ/ noun C1- A wistful or melancholy longing. · She had a yearning to see her long-lost sister again.
Plural yearnings
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There are as many elixirs of every kind as there are caprices and peculiarities in the physical and moral nature of humanity; and I will say further—the art of these chemists is capable with the utmost precision to accommodate and proportion the remedy and the bane to yearnings for love or desires for vengeance.”
I suppose the concept of home is inherently malleable, perpetually reshaped by our idiosyncratic desires and the unspoken yearning for novelty.
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