Amorous vs Lust - What's the difference?
amorous | lust |
Inclined or having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment.
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*:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
Indicating love or sexual desire.
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Of or relating to, or produced by, love.
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(lb) Affected with love; in love; enamored.
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A feeling of strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.
(archaic) A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual.
* Spenser
* Bishop Hall
(archaic) A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.
(obsolete) virility; vigour; active power
To desire very strongly.
To crave sexual contact urgently.
As an adjective amorous
is inclined or having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment.As a noun lust is
a feeling of strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.As a verb lust is
to desire very strongly.amorous
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Alternative forms
* amourousAdjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
(inclined or having a propensity to love) loving; fond; affectionateReferences
* *lust
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(wikipedia lust)Noun
- Seeing Kim fills me with a passionate lust .
- The boarders hide their lust to go home.
- For little lust had she to talk of aught.
- My lust to devotion is little.
- An ideal son is his father's lasting lust .
- (Francis Bacon)
Derived terms
* bloodlust * lustful * lustihood * lustily * lustiness * lustless * lusty * lust murderVerb
(en verb)- She was lusting after the new short dress she set her eyes on in the shop.