lust
Burning bodily want
Lust is intense sexual desire—a powerful physical craving for someone: He looked at her with undisguised lust.
The word extends to any consuming appetite or longing: lust for power, lust for gold, bloodlust.
To lust after someone is to desire them sexually; to lust after something is to crave it intensely.
In religious contexts, lust is one of the seven deadly sins.
Intense wanting
- arousalStirring to heightened state
- libidoInnate erotic drive
- carnalRelating to physical urges
- sensualityPursuit of physical pleasure
eroticism · passion · seduction · carnality · concupiscence · lechery · licentiousness · lasciviousness
Intense, persistent desire
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- thirstNeed for fluid
- appetiteDesire for food
craving · ache · pining · covetousness · desire · want · urge · hankering
Urge toward the unwise
- deadly sinSoul-destroying moral failing
- transgressionViolation of law or code
- immoralityQuality of being wicked
- viceBad habit or deputy
debauchery · hedonism · decadence · profligacy · impurity · iniquity · fornication · adultery
Intense emotional warmth
- fervorIntense emotional intensity
- passionIntense emotional drive
- fireCombustion with flames
- heatTransferred thermal energy
burning · blazing · fierce · vehemence · zeal · feverish · torrid · white-hot
Persistent mental attachment
- infatuationShort-lived intense attraction
- compulsionIrresistible urge to act
- maniaIntense, consuming obsession
- addictionCompulsive substance reliance
preoccupation · fascination · captivation · besottedness · enthrallment · possession · madness · frenzy
desire
Intense wanting
sensuality · eroticism · passion · seduction · carnality · concupiscence · lechery · licentiousness · lasciviousness · prurience
longing
Intense, persistent desire
appetite · craving · ache · pining · covetousness · desire · want · urge · hankering · need
temptation
Urge toward the unwise
- deadly sinSoul-destroying moral failing
- transgressionViolation of law or code
- immoralityQuality of being wicked
vice · debauchery · hedonism · decadence · profligacy · impurity · iniquity · fornication · adultery · depravity
ardor
Intense emotional warmth
heat · burning · blazing · fierce · vehemence · zeal · feverish · torrid · white-hot · smoldering
fixation
Persistent mental attachment
- infatuationShort-lived intense attraction
- compulsionIrresistible urge to act
- maniaIntense, consuming obsession
addiction · preoccupation · fascination · captivation · besottedness · enthrallment · possession · madness · frenzy · fever
lustfrigidity
Extreme coldness or aloofness
asexuality · frigidness · revulsion · repulsion · disgust
lustlove
Intense fond attachment
affection · tenderness · devotion · reverence · agape
lustindifference
Lack of interest
apathy · disinterest · unconcern · contentment · satisfaction
- lust afterDesire something intensely
- lusting afterIntensely desiring something forbidden
- blood lustMurderous craving
- lusted afterIntensely desired something
- fall in lustDevelop intense physical desire
- power lustObsessive desire for control
lustful, wanderlust, lusty, lusting, lusts, lusted, lustless