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lust

  (lŭst) pronunciation
n.
  1. Intense or unrestrained sexual craving.
    1. An overwhelming desire or craving: a lust for power.
    2. Intense eagerness or enthusiasm: a lust for life.
  3. Obsolete. Pleasure; relish.
intr.v., lust·ed, lust·ing, lusts.

To have an intense or obsessive desire, especially one that is sexual.

[Middle English, from Old English, desire.]


 
 
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Thesaurus: lust

noun

  1. Sexual hunger: amativeness, concupiscence, desire, eroticism, erotism, itch, libidinousness, lustfulness, passion, prurience, pruriency. See desire, sex/asexual.
  2. A strong wanting of what promises enjoyment or pleasure: appetence, appetency, appetite, craving, desire, hunger, itch, longing, thirst, wish, yearning, yen. See desire.

verb

    To have a greedy, obsessive desire: crave, hunger, itch, thirst. See desire.

 
Antonyms: lust

n

Definition: appetite, passion
Antonyms: aversion, chastity, disenchantment, disgust

v

Definition: desire strongly
Antonyms: be chaste, be pure, dislike

 
Philosophy Dictionary: lust

One of the traditional seven deadly sins, and the particular enemy of many of the early Christian fathers, including saints Jerome, Anthony and Augustine. Unfortunately the term is apt to stray in meaning, sometimes covering sexual desire in general, but sometimes confined to sexual desire in which the other person is merely used, or seen as a mere object. In Spanish and Italian the sin is called ‘lusuria’, which has different connotations again. See love, sex.

 
Quotes About: Lust

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"People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!" - Aldous Huxley

"This is the monstrosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit." - William Shakespeare

"I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times." - Jimmy Carter

"Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust." - Marquis De Sade

"What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore." - Edward Dahlberg

"Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes." - Marquis De Sade

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Wikipedia: lust

Lust is any intense desire or craving for self gratification. Lust can mean strictly sexual lust, although it is also common to speak of a "lust for life", "lust for blood (bloodlust for short)", or a "lust for power" or other goals. The Greek word which translates as lust is epithymia (επιθυμια), which also is translated into English as "to covet".

Etymology

The word is derived from the Old English term for desire, and ultimately from a Germanic which also originated High German lust ('wish, desire'). In German, the word Lust denotes simply "desire".

Obsolete uses include lust in the sense of pleasure, or relish.

Lust in the context of religion

Christianity—General

Catholic tradition considers lust to be one of the main sins or vices.

Christianity—Roman Catholicism

Roman Catholic Church teaches that lust is one of the seven capital vices, popularly known as the seven deadly sins. A vice, according to this tradition, is a "habit inclining one to sin" [1]. The specific sins to which lust may lead are fornication, adultery, incest, criminal assault, abduction, sodomy, rape, and others. [2]. However, "Such guilt as [one] may have contracted in any case is charged directly to the sinful act, not to the vice;" [3] in other words, it is the specific sins, and not the vice itself, which deprive one's soul of sanctifying grace and make one deserving of God's punishment.

Punishment in the afterlife

According to some Christian sources [4], reprobates whose chief unforgiven sin is lust are punished in Hell by being "smothered in fire and brimstone." However, while most Christian traditions agree that at some point after death the damned individuals find themselves in a hell where they suffer punishment for their sins, most traditions also agree that one can only speculate regarding the precise nature of any punishment above and beyond the principal torment, which comes simply from being totally separated from God.

Repentance in Purgatory

According to The Divine Comedy, penitents who are guilty of lust cleanse their soul of the sin by walking through flames, thereby purging their minds of all lustful thoughts.

Symbolic representations

A frequent visual symbol for the sin of lust is the color blue; for instance, that is the color of the cover of the book Lust in The Seven Deadly Sins series published by the Oxford University Press. [citation needed]

Another symbol of lust is the animal cow (or bull). An example of this appears in the engraving Shamelessness [1] by the 16th century artist Georg Pencz.[citation needed]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ A. von Bartsch, J. Heller, and R. Weigel, Le peintre graveur, vol. 8, ed. J. A. Barth (Leipzig, 1866). see the "L'impudicité" heading.

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Translations: Translations for: Lust

Dansk (Danish)
n. - lyst, begær, liderlighed
v. intr. - begære, tørste efter

idioms:

  • lust after    begære, tørste efter
  • lust for    begær efter, -begær

Nederlands (Dutch)
lust, wellust, wellustigheid

Français (French)
n. - (gén) désir, luxure, (fig) soif du (pouvoir)
v. intr. - convoiter (qn, qch)

idioms:

  • lust after    convoiter (qn, qch)
  • lust for    convoiter (qn, qch)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Sinneslust, sinnliche Begierde, Gier
v. - Lust haben

idioms:

  • lust after    gelüsten nach
  • lust for    gelüsten nach

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - λαγνεία, έντονη σαρκική επιθυμία, άνομος πόθος, (μτφ.) ακόρεστη "δίψα"
v. - ποθώ, ορέγομαι, λιμπίζομαι, εποφθαλμιώ, επιθυμώ σεξουαλικά

idioms:

  • lust after    επιθυμώ σεξουαλικά
  • lust for    ορέγομαι, ποθώ

Italiano (Italian)
lussuria

idioms:

  • lust after/for    concupire

Português (Portuguese)
n. - luxúria (f), desejo (m) ardente
v. - desejar ardentemente

idioms:

  • lust after/for    ânsia (f) por

Русский (Russian)
испытывать вожделение, сильно желать, вожделение, страсть

idioms:

  • lust after/for    жажда чего-л.

Español (Spanish)
n. - deseo vehemente, anhelo, apetito, lascivia, lujuria, sensualidad
v. intr. - codiciar, anhelar, desear con lujuria

idioms:

  • lust after    codiciar, desear
  • lust for    codiciar, desear

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - lusta, kättja, åtrå, begär
v. - eftertrakta, längta efter, törsta efter, (bibl.) begära

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
贪欲, 色欲, 欲望, 贪求, 渴望

idioms:

  • lust after    渴望, 贪求
  • lust for    渴望, 贪求

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 貪欲, 色欲, 欲望
v. intr. - 貪求, 渴望

idioms:

  • lust after    渴望, 貪求
  • lust for    渴望, 貪求

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 성욕, 열망, 갈망, 기쁨
v. intr. - 욕정이 타오르다, 열망하다

idioms:

  • lust after    열망이 치솟다
  • lust for    열망이 치솟다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 強い欲望, 渇望, 色情, 肉欲, 性欲, 情欲
v. - 熱望する, 色情を催す

idioms:

  • lust after/for    渇望する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) رغبه, رغبه جنسيه قويه أو شبقه, توق شديد أو شهوة, تلهف, تحرق (فعل) يتحرق إلى, يرغب في الجماع‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮תאווה, חשק, תשוקה‬
v. intr. - ‮השתוקק‬

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