lust

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  1. noun Intense or unrestrained sexual craving.
  2. noun An overwhelming desire or craving: a lust for power.
  3. noun Intense eagerness or enthusiasm: a lust for life.
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  • But not so lucky that she'd ever felt this kind of wonder…and okay, okay, the lust was a wallop of power as well. —  Greene, Jennifer - Rock Solid (html).html
  • He could scarcely believe his lust was aroused again, so fiercely, so soon. —  Loretta Chase - Lord of Scoundrels
  • They were in lust, and that arrangement suited them both. —  SexyBeastIV
  • But lust is a different thing altogether; my chaste soul could not forgive such a sin, and I declare open war against it. —  Venice
  • See the problem is that here are a few things I don't have: desire (I desire very little though I found a new manga and put it on my wish list - it won a REALLY big award), lust, anticipation, looking ahead, joy, innocence, peace, contentment, rest, relaxation. —  Screw Bronze!
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English, desire; see las- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English lust, from Anglo-Saxon lust, desire, pleasure, = Old Saxon OFries. Middle Dutch, Dutch Middle Low German Low German Old High German Middle High German G. lust = Icelandic lust = Danish Swedish lyst = Gothic (Moesogothic) lustus, desire; an abstract noun with formative -t, orig. -tus (as in Goth, kustus, a proof, from kiusan, prove, choose: see cost ), from an apparently √ lus, which can hardly be identical with the √ lus of loose, lose , loss, etc., but is perhaps ult. akin to Greek λιλαίεσθαι, Sanskrit √ lash, desire. Hence lust , v., list , v. and n., lusty, etc.: see these words.
  2. from Middle English lusten; from lust , n. The older form of the verb is list , q. v.
 

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