Libidinous vs Concupiscence - What's the difference?
libidinous | concupiscence |
Having lustful desires; characterized by lewdness; sensual; lascivious.
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An ardent desire, especially sexual desire; lust.
* Quite certainly you command me to refrain from concupiscence''' of the flesh and '''concupiscence of the eyes and worldy pride.'' — , ''The Confessions X, 30, 41. Trans Maria Boulding.
*1888 , , The Aspern Papers .
*:Poor Miss Tita's sense of her failure had produced an extraordinary alteration in her, but I had been too full of my literary concupiscence to think of that. Now I perceived it; I can scarcely tell how it startled me.
* He was torn by two intense and conflicting desires: his ardent wish to advance through his association with Mr. Browning, and his concupiscence .'' — ''Please Pass the Guilt , Rex Stout, 1973.
* Skaters, spinning like atoms across fields of pure light, are desirable in a way that transcends mere concupiscence ; they inhabit another element, and the man who would try to catch one risks, literally, falling on his ass.'' — ''Newsweek , Winter 1994.
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As an adjective libidinous
is having lustful desires; characterized by lewdness; sensual; lascivious.As a noun concupiscence is
an ardent desire, especially sexual desire; lust.libidinous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It is observed, that the red haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest, whom yet they much exceed in strength and activity.