Lust vs Lech - What's the difference?
lust | lech |
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.
(slang) A strong, lecherous desire or craving.
(slang) A lecher.
As nouns the difference between lust and lech
is that lust is a feeling of strong desire, especially of a sexual nature while lech is (slang) a strong, lecherous desire or craving or lech can be the capstone of a cromlech.As verbs the difference between lust and lech
is that lust is to desire very strongly while lech is (slang) to behave lecherously.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.