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Lust vs Carnality - What's the difference?

lust | carnality |

As nouns the difference between lust and carnality

is that lust is pleasure, joy while carnality is the state of being carnal.

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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    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", . . .