Voracious vs Lust - What's the difference?
voracious | lust |
Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.
* 1719 , , Robinson Crusoe , ch. 6:
* 1867 , , ch. 45:
* 1910 , , "The Human Drift":
Having a great appetite for anything (e.g., a voracious reader ).
* 1922 , , ch. 7:
* 2005 , Nathan Thornburgh, "
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.
As an adjective voracious
is wanting or devouring great quantities of food.As a noun lust is
pleasure, joy.voracious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I never had so much as . . . one wish to God to direct me whither I should go, or to keep me from the danger which apparently surrounded me, as well from voracious creatures as cruel savages.
- The old man was up, betimes, next morning, and waited impatiently for the appearance of his new associate, who after a delay that seemed interminable, at length presented himself, and commenced a voracious assault on the breakfast.
- Retreating before stronger breeds, hungry and voracious , the Eskimo has drifted to the inhospitable polar regions.
- If he carried chiefly his appetite, a zeal for tiled bathrooms, a conviction that the Pullman car is the acme of human comfort, and a belief that it is proper to tip waiters, taxicab drivers, and barbers, but under no circumstances station agents and ushers, then his Odyssey will be replete with good meals and bad meals, bathing adventures, compartment-train escapades, and voracious demands for money.
The Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies," Time , 29 Aug.:
- Methodical and voracious , these hackers wanted all the files they could find.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* voraciously * voraciousness * voracitylust
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.
