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Carnality vs Sexuality - What's the difference?

carnality | sexuality |

As nouns the difference between carnality and sexuality

is that carnality is the state of being carnal while sexuality is that which is characterized or distinguished by sex.

carnality

English

Noun

  • The state of being carnal.
  • A preoccupation with sexual desire.

    • Quotations

    * 1835 Robert Crawford Dillon – Lectures on some of the articles of faith of the Church of England *: The essence of depravity, as we inherit it from Adam, and discover it in ourselves, is carnality , a state of mind which our Article describes by the word "Phronema sarkos", . . .

    sexuality

    English

    Noun

  • (rfex) that which is characterized or distinguished by sex
  • (rfex) sexual activity
  • (rfex) the concern with, or interest in sexual activity
  • (rfex) sexual potency
  • (rfex) sexual orientation
  • (rfex) sexual identity, gender
  • (rfex) sexual receptivity

    • Derived terms

    * asexuality * bisexuality * heterosexuality * homosexuality * hypersexuality * hyposexuality * pansexuality * omnisexuality

    Related terms

    * sex * sexual

    See also

    * sensuality