Synonyms for craving
ˈkreɪ vɪŋcrav·ing

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1. craving

   Appetite is used only of the demands of the physical system, unless otherwise expressly stated, as when we say an appetite for knowledge; passion includes all excitable impulses of our nature, as anger, fear, love, hatred, etc. Appetite is thus more animal than passion; and when we speak of passions and appetites as conjoined or contrasted, we think of the appetites as wholly physical and of the passions as, in part at least, mental or spiritual. We say an appetite for food, a passion for fame. Compare DESIRE.

   Compare ANTIPATHY.

   Synonyms:
   appetency, appetite, desire, disposition, impulse, inclination, liking, longing, lust, passion, proclivity, proneness, propensity, relish, thirst, zest

   Antonyms:
   antipathy, aversion, detestation, disgust, dislike, disrelish, distaste, hatred, indifference, loathing, repugnance, repulsion

   Preposition:
   He had an insatiable appetite for the marvellous.

Princeton's WordNet

1. cravingnoun

   an intense desire for some particular thing

Matched Categories

1. • Desire

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1. cravingnoun

   Synonyms:
   longing, itching, strong desire

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1. cravingnoun

   Synonyms:
   longing, yearning, hankering, hungering, entreaty, supplication

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1. List of paraphrases for "craving":

   thirsty, envy, thirst

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How to use craving in a sentence?

1. Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973:

   Lust is the craving for salt of a person who is dying of thirst.

2. Christian LeBlanc:

   I know nothing about the actual elephant other than its love for selfies, its personality was very playful and it clearly had a craving for bananas because it devoured them.

3. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky:

   So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find something to worship...What is essential is that all may be together in it. The craving for community worship is the chief misery of...all humanity. For the sake of common worship they've slain each other with the sword.

4. Rebecca Scritchfield:

   You don’t have to answer every single craving every time.

5. Tom Roberts:

   One guy had been driving all day, he was anxious for a nice fancy Starbucks -- but she gave him a large coffee and he was cool, i think he had a little craving going.