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Lust Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Lust?
[n] self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins)
[n] a strong sexual desire [v] have a craving, appetite, or great desire for Synonyms | Synonyms for Lust: crave | hunger | lecherousness | lustfulness | luxuria | starve | thirst Related Terms | Find terms related to Lust: acedia | ache | ache for | acquisitiveness | ambition | andromania | anger | animality | animus | aphrodisia | appetence | appetency | appetite | appetition | avarice | avariciousness | avaritia | avidity | avidness | bawdiness | biological urge | bodily appetite | carnal desire | carnality | choice | clitoromania | command | conation | conatus | concupiscence | coveting | covetousness | crave | craving | cupidity | deadly sin | decision | desire | determination | dirtiness | discretion | disposition | drive | energy | envy | eromania | eroticism | eroticomania | eroticomaniac | erotism | erotomania | excitement | fancy | fervor | fleshliness | fleshly lust | free choice | free will | frenzy of desire | furor uterinus | fury of desire | gluttony | goatishness | grasping | graspingness | greed | greediness | gula | gynecomania | hanker | heat | hoggishness | horniness | hot blood | hot pants | hunger | hysteromania | inclination | incontinence | indecency | infantile sexuality | inordinate desire | insatiability | insatiable desire | intemperateness | intention | invidia | ira | itch | itching palm | lasciviousness | lecherousness | lechery | lewdness | libidinousness | libido | lickerishness | liking | lubriciousness | lubricity | lust after | lustfulness | luxuria | mind | nymphomania | objective | obscenity | overgreediness | passion | piggishness | pine | pleasure | polymorphous perversity | priapism | pride | prurience | pruriency | randiness | rapaciousness | rapacity | ravenousness | resolution | rut | salaciousness | salacity | satyriasis | satyrism | sensuality | sexiness | sexual desire | sexual longing | sexual passion | sexuality | sloth | sordidness | superbia | swinishness | thirst | urge | uteromania | velleity | venereal appetite | volition | voraciousness | voracity | will | will power | wish | wolfishness | wrath | yearn | yearning | yen See Also | concupiscence | deadly sin | desire | mortal sin | physical attraction | sexual desire | want Lust In Webster's Dictionary \Lust\, n. [AS. lust, lust, pleasure, longing; akin to OS.,
D., G., & Sw. lust, Dan. & Icel. lyst, Goth lustus, and perh.
tom Skr. lush to desire, or to E. loose. Cf. {List} to
please, {Listless}.]
1. Pleasure. [Obs.] `` Lust and jollity.'' --Chaucer.
2. Inclination; desire. [Obs.]
For little lust had she to talk of aught. --Spenser.
My lust to devotion is little. --Bp. Hall.
3. Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; -- in a had
sense; as, the lust of gain.
The lust of reigning. --Milton.
4. Licentious craving; sexual appetite. --Milton.
5. Hence: Virility; vigor; active power. [Obs.] --Bacon.
\Lust\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lusted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lusting}.] [AS. lystan. See {Lust}, n., and cf. List to choose.] 1. To list; to like. [Obs.] --Chaucer. `` Do so if thou lust. '' --Latimer. Note: In earlier usage lust was impersonal. In the water vessel he it cast When that him luste. --Chaucer. 2. To have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate or sinful desire, as for the gratification of the sexual appetite or of covetousness; -- often with after. Whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. --Deut. xii. 15. Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. --Matt. v. 28. The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy. --James iv. 5. |
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