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Impurity vs Lust - What's the difference?

impurity | lust |

As nouns the difference between impurity and lust

is that impurity is the condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification while lust is pleasure, joy.

impurity

English

Noun

(impurities)
  • The condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification.
  • A component or additive that renders something else impure.
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  • A state of immorality or sin; especially the weakness of the flesh: inchastity.
  • Synonyms

    * impureness

    Antonyms

    * purity

    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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