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concupiscence
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of CONCUPISCENCE
1
sexual appetite <the Puritans did not condemn concupiscence but rather the satisfaction of it in ways they deemed illicit>
Synonyms concupiscence, eroticism, horniness, hots, itch, lech, letch, libidinousness, lust, lustfulness, lustihood, passion, salaciousness
Related Words libido; ardor, heat, rut; erotomania, hypersexuality, lecherousness, lechery, nymphomania, satyriasis; venery
2
intense sexual desire <according the church theologian St. Augustine, concupiscence is a consequence of original sin>
Related Words erotomania, nymphomania, satyriasis; lasciviousness, lewdness, libidinousness, licentiousness, lickerishness, randiness, salaciousness, wantonness
Near Antonyms frigidity
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