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Carnal vs Lascivious - What's the difference?

carnal | lascivious | Synonyms |

As adjectives the difference between carnal and lascivious

is that carnal is relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites while lascivious is wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.

carnal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites
  • worldly or earthly; temporal
  • of or relating to the body or flesh

    • Derived terms

    * carnal knowledge

    Related terms

    * incarnate * incarnation * reincarnate * reincarnation

    External links

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    lascivious

    English

    (wikipedia lascivious)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.
  • *
  • *:The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.

    • Synonyms

    * wanton, lewd, lustful

    See also

    * lecherous