Lust vs Lover - What's the difference?
lust | lover |
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.
One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, or girlfriend.
* Shakespeare
A sexual partner.
A person who loves something.
As nouns the difference between lust and lover
is that lust is pleasure, joy while lover is one who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, or girlfriend.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.
Anagrams
* * ----lover
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal or obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Love is blind, and lovers cannot see / The pretty follies that themselves commit.
- a lover of fine wines
- a lover of his country
- All right, me lover?
