lust

Meaning

1. A feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal.
2. A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual.
3. A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.
4. (obsolete) virility; vigour; active power

desire

sexual desire

sexual passion

carnal desire

luxuria

strong desire

animal passions

sensual pleasure

carnal desires

desire eagerly

hanker for

incontinency

lusts of the flesh

open eyes

the hots

be sexually aroused

sexual indulgence

St. Augustine

addiction

excessive desire

hunger for

Tanha

erotic felling

evil wish

feel a sexual desire

human passion

lustful desires

seducing of sensuality

sensual desire

want greatly

lech after

great carnal desire

be concupiscent

have sexual desire

violent dessre

profligateness

Libido

covetise

anxiety

arousal

aspiration

be in heat

be jealous

lust after

sexual pleasure

be on heat

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/lʌst/

From Middle English lust, from Old English lust (“lust, pleasure, longing”), from Proto-West Germanic *lustu, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz. Akin to Old Saxon, Dutch lust, Old Frisian, Old High German, German Lust, Swedish lust, Danish lyst, Icelandic lyst, Old Norse losti, Gothic 𐌻𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 (lustus), and perhaps to Sanskrit लष् (laṣ), लषति (laṣati, “to desire”) and Albanian lushë (“bitch, savage dog, promiscuous woman”), or to English loose. Compare list (“to please”), listless.