concupiscence

1 sexual appetite the Puritans did not condemn concupiscence but rather the satisfaction of it in ways they deemed illicit Synonyms desire, eroticism, horniness, hots, itch, lech, letch, libidinousness, lust, lustfulness, lustihood, passion, salaciousnessRelated Words libido; ardor, heat, rut; erotomania, hypersexuality, lecherousness, lechery, nymphomania, satyriasis; veneryNear Antonyms abstinence, celibacy, chastity; frigidity, frigidness

2 intense sexual desire according the church theologian St. Augustine, concupiscence is a consequence of original sin Synonyms ardor, lust, eros, eroticism, horniness, itch, lustfulness, passionRelated Words erotomania, nymphomania, satyriasis; lasciviousness, lewdness, libidinousness, licentiousness, lickerishness, randiness, salaciousness, wantonnessNear Antonyms frigidity