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Vigour vs Lustless - What's the difference?

vigour | lustless |

As a noun vigour

is active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.

As an adjective lustless is

without sexual lust.

vigour

English

Alternative forms

* vigor (US) * vygour (obsolete)

Noun

  • Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
  • * (rfdate) :
    • The vigour of this arm was never vain.
  • (biology) Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action.
    • A plant grows with vigour.
  • Strength; efficacy; potency.
  • * 1667 , :
    • But in the fruithful earth His beams, unactive else, their vigour find.

    Usage notes

    Vigour and its derivatives commonly imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure.

    Derived terms

    * envigorate * vigorous * hybrid vigor/hybrid vigour

    Related terms

    * vegetable * vigil

    lustless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Without sexual lust.
  • * 1587 , Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great
    • By Mahomet my kinsman's sepulchre, / And by the holy Alcoran I swear, / He shall be made a chaste and lustless eunuch...
  • * 1964 , J Z Eglinton, Paul Goodman, Greek Love
    • But then, Bergler also claims that there are no genuinely ambi-erotic individuals, only "homosexuals who may be capable of lustless mechanical sex...
  • (obsolete) Lacking vigour; weak; spiritless.
    • (Webster 1913)