yearning

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
yearn /jəːn/

▶verb

• 1 have an intense feeling of loss and longing for something.

• 2 archaic be filled with compassion or warm feeling.

– derivatives
yearner noun,
yearning noun & adjective,
yearningly adverb.

– origin OE giernan, from a Gmc base meaning ‘eager’.