CONCUPISCENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does concupiscence mean? 

• CONCUPISCENCE (noun)
  The noun CONCUPISCENCE has 1 sense:

1. a desire for sexual intimacy

  Familiarity information: CONCUPISCENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONCUPISCENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A desire for sexual intimacy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

concupiscence; eros; physical attraction; sexual desire

Hypernyms ("concupiscence" is a kind of...):

desire (the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "concupiscence"):

erotic love; love; sexual love (a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction)

aphrodisia (a desire for heterosexual intimacy)

anaphrodisia (decline or absence of sexual desire)

passion (a feeling of strong sexual desire)

sensualism; sensuality; sensualness (desire for sensual pleasures)

amativeness; amorousness; eroticism; erotism; sexiness (the arousal of feelings of sexual desire)

fetish (a form of sexual desire in which gratification depends to an abnormal degree on some object or item of clothing or part of the body)

libido ((psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual urge or desire)

lecherousness; lust; lustfulness (a strong sexual desire)

nymphomania (abnormally intense sexual desire in women)

satyriasis (abnormally intense sexual desire in men)

the hots (intense sexual desire)

Derivation:

concupiscent (vigorously passionate)

 Context examples 

For, since the conjunction of male and female is founded upon the great law of nature, in order to propagate and continue the species, the Lilliputians will needs have it, that men and women are joined together, like other animals, by the motives of concupiscence; and that their tenderness towards their young proceeds from the like natural principle: for which reason they will never allow that a child is under any obligation to his father for begetting him, or to his mother for bringing him into the world; which, considering the miseries of human life, was neither a benefit in itself, nor intended so by his parents, whose thoughts, in their love encounters, were otherwise employed.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)