different between greed vs yearning

English

Etymology

C. 1600. Back-formation from greedy.

Pronunciation

• enPR: gr?d, IPA^(key): /??id/
• Rhymes: -i?d

Noun

greed (countable and uncountable, plural greeds)

1. A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.

   Synonyms: avarice, covetousness, greediness, rapacity, gluttony; see also Thesaurus:greed

   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 564:

     […] But when I had bestridden the plank, quoth I to myself, "Thou deserveth all that betideth thee. All this is decreed to me of Allah (whose name be exalted!), to turn me from my greed of gain, whence ariseth all that I endure, for I have wealth galore."

Derived terms

• greedily
• greediness
• greedy

Translations

Verb

greed (third-person singular simple present greeds, present participle greeding, simple past and past participle greeded)

1. To desire in a greedy manner, or to act on such a desire.

Further reading

• greed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• greed in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

References

Anagrams

• degre, dereg, edger, erged, redge

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?j?n??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?j??n??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n??
• Hyphenation: yearn?ing

Etymology 1

From Middle English yerning, from Old English ?ierning, ?ierninge. Equivalent to the gerund (yearn + -ing). yearn comes from Proto-West Germanic *girnijan, from Proto-Germanic *girnijan?, from *gernaz (“eager, willing”) + *-jan?, from Proto-Indo-European *??er- (“to yearn for”).

Noun

yearning (plural yearnings)

1. A wistful or melancholy longing.

   She had a yearning to see her long-lost sister again.

Related terms

• yearn

Translations

Verb

yearning

1. Present participle and gerund of yearn.

Etymology 2

From earlier yerning, from Middle English yernyng, erning, renning. From Old English rynning and gerunnen, geurnen (“run together, coagulated, curdled”), past participles of gerinnan, geirnan, respectively. Influenced by Middle English yern (“to (cause to) coagulate or curdle”), Old English iernan (“to run, flow”), metathesized forms derived from the same origin. From verbal prefix ge- + rinnan (“to run”). First element is from Proto-West Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Indo-European *?óm (“with, by”); second element is from Proto-Germanic *rinnan?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?r?-néw-ti, from *h?er- (“to move”). Doublet of rennet, run.

Noun

yearning (countable and uncountable, plural yearnings)

1. (Scotland, archaic) rennet (an enzyme to curdle milk in order to make cheese).

Related terms

• yearn
• earn
• rennet

Anagrams

• renaying