different between longing vs sexful

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l????/
• Rhymes: -????
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?????/

Etymology 1

From Middle English longynge, langynge, langand, from Old English langiende, from Proto-Germanic *lang?ndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *lang?n? (“to desire, long for”), equivalent to long +? -ing (present participle ending).

Verb

longing

1. present participle of long

Etymology 2

From Middle English longinge, langynge, from Old English longung, langung (“longing, desire”), from Proto-Germanic *langung?, gerund of Proto-Germanic *lang?n? (“to desire, long for”), equivalent to long +? -ing (gerund ending).

Noun

longing (plural longings)

1. An earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire.
2. The buying of a financial instrument with the expectation that its value will rise

Synonyms

• yearning

Related terms

• long

Translations

See also

• desire
• miss

English

Etymology

From sex +? -ful.

Adjective

sexful (comparative more sexful, superlative most sexful)

1. Full of sexual desire, longing, or activity; sexual.
   • 1893, George Moore, Evelyn Innes, ?ISBN (2010 reprint by Forgotten Books), p. 232:

     [S]he had heard it sung by two grey-haired men in the Papal choir in Rome, soprano voices of a rarer and more radiant timbre than any woman's sexful voice.

   • 1990, Stephen Vizinczey, An Innocent Millionaire, ?ISBN, p. 12:

     Mark's father . . . was an actor. . . . After perishing as a Christian martyr in an epic about the last sexful days of the Roman Empire, he would come back to life only to be killed again halfway through a Western filmed in Spain.

   • 2005, Richard V. Shriver, The Return of Gabriel: The Gabriel Letters, Book II

     The nature of the human soul is sexful, not sexless. It is full of the qualities of the best of both sexes. All men should have some feminine qualities, as all women should have some masculine qualities.

Antonyms

• sexless

Anagrams

• flexus, fluxes