concupiscence
Strong fleshly desire
Concupiscence is intense desire, particularly sexual longing.
The word belongs to theological and philosophical discourse, where it typically refers to the soul's susceptibility to sinful urges: Augustine wrote extensively on concupiscence and original sin.
Outside religious contexts, it sounds deliberately elevated or ironic: He gazed at the dessert menu with undisguised concupiscence.
Intense wanting
- libidoInnate erotic drive
- carnalityPursuit of bodily pleasures
- lecheryExcessive sexual indulgence
- lasciviousnessOvert sexual impropriety
eroticism · prurience · lewdness · salacity · venery · voluptuousness · randiness · horniness
Desire for food
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- thirstNeed for fluid
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
desire · urge · ache · pining · covetousness · wanting · hankering · yen
Attractive, tempting quality
- enticementSomething that attracts
- seductionEnticing someone romantically
- lureThing that tempts
- baitLure for prey
snare · siren · trap · beguilement · forbidden fruit · weakness · susceptibility · yielding
Intense emotional warmth
- fervorIntense emotional intensity
- intensityStrength or force level
- heatTransferred thermal energy
- fireCombustion with flames
burning · vehemence · inflamed · feverish · uncontrollable · overwhelming · torment · agony
Violation of divine law
- original sinInherited spiritual corruption
- mortal sinGrace-destroying spiritual offense
- fleshSoft body matter
- carnalRelating to physical urges
worldly · sinful · immoral · depravity · wickedness · iniquity · transgression · vice
desire
Intense wanting
lasciviousness · eroticism · prurience · lewdness · salacity · venery · voluptuousness · randiness · horniness · licentiousness
appetite
Desire for food
yearning · desire · urge · ache · pining · covetousness · wanting · hankering · yen · burning desire
allure
Attractive, tempting quality
- enticementSomething that attracts
- seductionEnticing someone romantically
- lureThing that tempts
bait · snare · siren · trap · beguilement · forbidden fruit · weakness · susceptibility · yielding · giving in
ardor
Intense emotional warmth
fire · burning · vehemence · inflamed · feverish · uncontrollable · overwhelming · torment · agony · possessed
sin
Violation of divine law
- original sinInherited spiritual corruption
- mortal sinGrace-destroying spiritual offense
- fleshSoft body matter
carnal · worldly · sinful · immoral · depravity · wickedness · iniquity · transgression · vice · corruption
- lustlust, lustfulness, carnality, libido, lechery
- sexual ethicssexual morality, sexual ethics, chastity, adultery, human sexuality
- AugustineConfessions, original sin, divine grace, predestination, Doctor of the Church
- theological anthropologyimage of God, divine image, divine likeness, likeness, fall of man
- sinoriginal sin, mortal sin, venial sin, deadly sins, seven deadly sins
- vicevice, debauchery, prostitution, depravity, immorality
concupiscencefrigidity
Extreme coldness or aloofness
asexuality · frigidness · coldness · apathy · unresponsiveness
concupiscencechastity
Abstaining from sexual activity
purity · abstinence · continence · celibacy · virtue