The phrase "collective longing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a shared desire or yearning among a group of people.
Example: "The community's collective longing for peace was evident during the candlelight vigil."
Alternatives: "shared yearning" or "communal desire."
It became the doorway to the infinitude of the soul, and expressed humanity's collective longing for freedom and brotherhood.
"The subtext is made explicit, and you get this sense of an overpowering ache, of collective longing".
Though too many were swept away in a collective longing to see hope triumph over experience, none of it seemed wholly unreasonable at the time.
"He's a seemingly ordinary person who acted out this collective longing, a longing that wasn't necessarily noticeable — that many people didn't know they had, until they saw it," said Todd Gitlin, a professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University.
An apparent wistfulness for 50's dress up may also suggest a collective longing for a period in which motherhood was a significantly less burdened enterprise than it is today.
More Sprees in London, an annual publication aimed at men who like to flatter themselves that they are connoisseurs of cunt, points William towards Sugar, a prostitute who holds an almost mythical place in the city's collective longing.
People are saying: 'I do want real community, this is a strong and powerful idea, and I resent the fact that this idea has been stolen from me.' You've got these products that are held up on insane pedestals - all of the collective longings of our culture have been projected on to lattes or trainers.
Miuccia Prada is a designer whose clothes manage to capture our collective cultural longings, often well before we are even cognizant of them.
Mr. Tveit (pronounced tuh-VATE), who starred on Broadway as Gabe in "Next to Normal" and as Frank Abagnale Jr. in "Catch Me if You Can" and on film as Enjolras in "Les Misérables," has the dreamy good looks of a high school sports hero who elicits collective sighs of longing.
Working with poets across Europe, Vermeersch said: We wanted to reclaim Europe, to express our collective dreams and longings.
The thing that I took forever from Isaiah is that these collective identities and longings are primary and passionate and that there's no point in arguing about them.
