Lust vs Carnal - What's the difference?
lust | carnal |
A feeling of strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.
(archaic) A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual.
* Spenser
* Bishop Hall
(archaic) A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.
(obsolete) virility; vigour; active power
To desire very strongly.
To crave sexual contact urgently.
relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites
worldly or earthly; temporal
of or relating to the body or flesh
As a noun lust
is a feeling of strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.As a verb lust
is to desire very strongly.As an adjective carnal is
relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites.lust
English
(wikipedia lust)Noun
- Seeing Kim fills me with a passionate lust .
- The boarders hide their lust to go home.
- For little lust had she to talk of aught.
- My lust to devotion is little.
- An ideal son is his father's lasting lust .
- (Francis Bacon)
Derived terms
* bloodlust * lustful * lustihood * lustily * lustiness * lustless * lusty * lust murderVerb
(en verb)- She was lusting after the new short dress she set her eyes on in the shop.