Lust vs Eros - What's the difference?
lust | eros |
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.
A winged figure of a child representing love and/or its power
Physical love; sexual desire
a type of love that seeks fulfillment without violation or something else
(psychiatry) libido
(psychiatry) collective instincts for self-preservation; life drive
As nouns the difference between lust and eros
is that lust is a feeling of strong desire, especially of a sexual nature while eros is a winged figure of a child representing love and/or its power.As a verb lust
is to desire very strongly.As a proper noun Eros is
the god of love and sexual desire; son of either Erebus and Nyx or Aphrodite and Ares. His Roman counterpart is Cupid.As an initialism EROS is
Earth Resources Observation Satellite.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.
