carnalness
Appetite for flesh
Carnalness is the quality of being carnal—relating to bodily appetites, especially sexual desire.
The word emphasizes physicality over spirituality: the raw carnalness of their attraction.
It appears in contexts contrasting flesh with spirit, pleasure with restraint.
Carnality is the more common noun form.
Intense wanting
- passionIntense emotional drive
- libidoInnate erotic drive
- arousalStirring to heightened state
- lecheryExcessive sexual indulgence
concupiscence · lasciviousness · prurience · lewdness · licentiousness · wantonness · eroticism · lust
Happy, satisfied feeling
- indulgenceYielding to desire
- voluptuousnessSensual abundance and curves
- hedonismPursuit of gratification
- sensuousPleasing to the body
tactile · decadence · sybaritic · epicurean · gratification · sensuousness · luxuriance · fleshpots
desire
Intense wanting
lechery · concupiscence · lasciviousness · prurience · lewdness · licentiousness · wantonness · eroticism · lust · craving
pleasure
Happy, satisfied feeling
- indulgenceYielding to desire
- voluptuousnessSensual abundance and curves
- hedonismPursuit of gratification
sensuous · tactile · decadence · sybaritic · epicurean · gratification · sensuousness · luxuriance · fleshpots · appetitive
corporeal
Having physical existence
bodily · anatomical · visceral · organic · tangible · mortal · human · earthly · material · worldly
carnalnessspirituality
Connection to the sacred
spiritualness · otherworldliness · ethereality · transcendence · soulfulness
carnalnessasceticism
Severe self-denial practice
abstinence · celibacy · self-denial · chastity · continence
flesh, carnivore, carnal, incarnate, incarnation, carnation, reincarnation, carnality, reincarnate