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Lust vs Anger - What's the difference?

lust | anger |

As nouns the difference between lust and anger

is that lust is pleasure, joy while anger is remorse, regret.

lust

English

(wikipedia lust)

Noun

  • A feeling of strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.
  • Seeing Kim fills me with a passionate lust .
  • (archaic) A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual.
  • The boarders hide their lust to go home.
  • * Spenser
  • For little lust had she to talk of aught.
  • * Bishop Hall
  • My lust to devotion is little.
  • (archaic) A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.
  • An ideal son is his father's lasting lust .
  • (obsolete) virility; vigour; active power
  • (Francis Bacon)

    Derived terms

    * bloodlust * lustful * lustihood * lustily * lustiness * lustless * lusty * lust murder

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To desire very strongly.
  • She was lusting after the new short dress she set her eyes on in the shop.
  • To crave sexual contact urgently.
  • Anagrams

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    anger

    English

    (wikipedia anger)

    Noun

  • A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
  • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger , leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}
  • (obsolete) Pain or stinging.
  • * {{quote-book, 1660, , 3= Mensa mystica, page=322, year_published=1717
  • , passage=It heals the Wounds that Sin hath made; and takes away the Anger of the Sore;
  • * Temple
  • I made the experiment, setting the moxa where the greatest anger and soreness still continued.

    Synonyms

    * (strong feeling of antagonism) * See also

    Derived terms

    () * angerful * angerless * angry * anger management * in anger

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause such a feeling of antagonism.
  • Don't anger me.
  • To become angry.
  • You anger too easily.

    Synonyms

    * (to cause anger) enrage, infuriate; annoy, vex, grill, displease; aggravate, irritate * (to become angry) get angry (see angry for more)

    References

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    Anagrams

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