lusting
Burning with desire
Lusting is wanting something intensely, usually with sexual desire implied.
Someone lusting after a person craves them physically: He spent the evening lusting after his coworker.
The word extends to intense non-sexual desire: lusting for power, lusting after a promotion.
The connotation is of appetite barely restrained.
Powerful urge to have
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- wantingAbsent or insufficient
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- hungeringIntensely desiring something
thirsting · coveting · aching · pining · appetite · urge · drive · impulse
Cultural or social prohibition
- illicitProhibited by law
- sinfulViolating moral law
- transgressiveViolating accepted boundaries
- immoralContrary to ethical principles
temptation · covetousness · adultery · lechery · seduction · forbidden fruit · indecent · wanton
Persistent mental attachment
- obsessionPersistent, intrusive preoccupation
- compulsionIrresistible urge to act
- consumedFully used or eaten
- possessedHad or was inhabited
besotted · infatuated · captivated · enthralled · enslaved · tormented · haunted · preoccupied
craving
Powerful urge to have
hungering · thirsting · coveting · aching · pining · appetite · urge · drive · impulse · need
taboo
Cultural or social prohibition
- illicitProhibited by law
- sinfulViolating moral law
- transgressiveViolating accepted boundaries
immoral · temptation · covetousness · adultery · lechery · seduction · forbidden fruit · indecent · wanton · licentious
fixation
Persistent mental attachment
- obsessionPersistent, intrusive preoccupation
- compulsionIrresistible urge to act
- consumedFully used or eaten
possessed · besotted · infatuated · captivated · enthralled · enslaved · tormented · haunted · preoccupied · fixated
lustingindifference
Lack of interest
apathy · disinterest · unconcern · detachment · nonchalance
lustingrenouncing
Formally abandoning a claim
abstaining · fasting · self-denying · purifying · transcending
- lusting afterIntensely desiring something forbidden