lusts
Burns with want
Lusts is the plural of lust—intense desires, especially sexual ones.
Someone consumed by lusts is driven by powerful cravings: His lusts led him to ruin.
The word often implies desires that are base or ungoverned.
As a verb, lusts means desires intensely: She lusts after fame, He lusts for revenge.
Powerful urge to have
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- appetiteDesire for food
- covetDesire greedily
hankering · urge · thirst · itch · wanting · pining · fancy · inclination
Cultural or social prohibition
- illicitProhibited by law
- sinfulViolating moral law
- adulteryMarried person's sexual betrayal
- fornicationIntercourse between unmarried persons
infidelity · transgression · lechery · licentiousness · debauchery · temptation · vices · carnality
Intense emotional warmth
- fervorIntense emotional intensity
- burningCombustion in progress
- desireIntense wanting
- infatuationShort-lived intense attraction
sensuality · eroticism · carnal · libido · amorous · seduction · arousal · titillation
Desire for achievement
- dominationSupreme authority held
- conquestDefeating and seizing control
- controlAuthority to direct
- gloryExalted honor and praise
supremacy · ruthlessness · megalomania · tyranny · bloodlust · vengeance · wrath · aggression
craving
Powerful urge to have
covet · hankering · urge · thirst · itch · wanting · pining · fancy · inclination · predilection
taboo
Cultural or social prohibition
fornication · infidelity · transgression · lechery · licentiousness · debauchery · temptation · vices · carnality · concupiscence
ardor
Intense emotional warmth
infatuation · sensuality · eroticism · carnal · libido · amorous · seduction · arousal · titillation · ravishing
ambition
Desire for achievement
- dominationSupreme authority held
- conquestDefeating and seizing control
- controlAuthority to direct
glory · supremacy · ruthlessness · megalomania · tyranny · bloodlust · vengeance · wrath · aggression · ruthless
lustsindifference
Lack of interest
apathy · disinterest · coldness · detachment · unconcern
lustsaversions
Strong feelings against
revulsions · loathings · abhorrence · disgust · repulsions
lustschastity
Abstaining from sexual activity
purity · abstinence · celibacy · asceticism · temperance
- 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
lust, lustful, wanderlust, lusty, lusting, lusted, lustfulness, lustless, lustfully