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Hanker vs Lust - What's the difference?

hanker | lust |

As a verb hanker

is to crave, want or desire.

As a noun lust is

pleasure, joy.

hanker

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To crave, want or desire.
    • If you hanker for chocolate, you'll like this fudge recipe.
  • *2012 , The Economist, 13 Oct 2012, Butlers: Very good, sir
  • *:[...] the newly rich hanker after old aristocratic glitz.

    • Usage notes

    * Usually used with for, as in the example above; after may also be used.

    Anagrams

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    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

    Related terms

    * wanderlust

    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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