lustfulness

noun

Definition of lustfulnessnext
1
as in lust
intense sexual desire a sermon on lustfulness and the weakness of the flesh

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2
as in desire
sexual appetite the legendary lustfulness of sailors who have been at sea for far too long

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  1. lust
  2. desire
  3. passion
  4. eroticism
  5. concupiscence
Noun
  • Sometimes, the darkness was a lingering memory, whether from a massacre decades ago in My Lai, Vietnam, or from a 17th-century genocide on an island in Indonesia, with the slaughter driven by a lust for nutmeg.
    Bryant Rousseau, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Ellen’s entire life has been a nightmare, haunted by Orlok and his diabolical lust.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
Definition of lust
Noun
  • What’s certain, however, is that NASA, the commercial space sector, and nations around the globe are fomenting their desires to renew lunar exploration.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Venus in Pisces inspires your heart’s desires, creative endeavors and romantic pursuits with a dreamy, whimsical vibration.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of desire
Noun
  • Released in 2010, Superficial was a passion project into which the couple invested nearly $2 million.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Both coaches happen to be from Argentina, which means their passion for soccer runs deep, their training sessions are intense, and their training grounds are stocked with yerba mate.
    Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 15 Jan. 2025
Definition of passion
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  • Employing the help of scientists, philosophers and historians, Bhardwaj establishes 12 motivations for travel: curiosity, inspiration, happiness, creativity, serendipity, hardship, service, healing, wonder, empathy, eroticism and hope.
    Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Tsukamoto’s bracing 67-minute film is teeming with high-voltage eroticism and dangerous body mod impulses, as two Japanese men (played by Tomorowo Taguchi and Tsukamoto himself) indulge in feverish, fetishistic fusings with metal and machinery.
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
Definition of eroticism
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  • Gregory of Nyssa, contemplating the Christian horror of concupiscence, once theorized that had not Adam and Eve sinned, the two of them would have remained virgins and reproduced in whatever way angels did.
    David Harsanyi, National Review, 8 June 2023
  • The depictions are disturbingly romantic: seminude invaders among smoldering monuments, preening with bloodlust and concupiscence.
    Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 9 June 2020
Definition of concupiscence
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