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Lust vs Gratification - What's the difference?

lust | gratification |

As nouns the difference between lust and gratification

is that lust is pleasure, joy while gratification is the act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite; as, the gratification of the palate, of the appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the heart.

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

    * * ----

    gratification

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite; as, the gratification of the palate, of the appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the heart.
  • That which affords pleasure; satisfaction; enjoyment; fruition: delight.
  • A reward; a recompense; a gratuity.
  • Synonyms

    * gladness, queemliness

    Derived terms

    * oral gratification * self-gratification