Other forms: cravings
A craving is a powerful urge that overrides intention. A craving for sugar, resist the craving, cravings passed.
The useful fact about cravings is that they peak and fall within about twenty minutes whether or not you give in, which is the basis of most advice about waiting them out. In pregnancy they are common and their cause is not well understood. Note crave beneath it.
1nouncravingA powerful urge that overrides intention.
“During her pregnancy, she had a craving for pickles and ice cream.”
craving is an urge.
Old English crafing means a demand or claim, from crafian, to demand.
Old English
crafing — claim, demand
Middle English
cravinge
English, today
craving
From Middle English cravinge, from Old English crafing (“claim, demand”); equivalent to crave + -ing.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA