LUSTFULNESS Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words | Merriam-Webster Thesaurus

lustfulness

noun

Definition of lustfulness

1

as in lust

intense sexual desire a sermon on lustfulness and the weakness of the flesh

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2

as in desire

sexual appetite the legendary lustfulness of sailors who have been at sea for far too long

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Noun

The dialectically deft characters in his movies aren’t talking heads but talking bodies, elaborating a world of cultural and rhetorical elegance from the sublimation of lust and the dream of love.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 July 2026
More important to Bernstein is what that lust reveals about her characters’ deepest needs, specifically how their need to care and be cared for can be as easily perverted as any other form of desire.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 9 July 2026

Definition of lust

Noun

Cary, torn between his own desires and others’ expectations, can’t seem to determine where his loyalties lie.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 15 July 2026
Unrequited yearning, alcoholism, and suppressed desires abound in the 80-minute one-act play, which won Escola a Tony Award.

— Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2026

Definition of desire

Noun

For those truly struggling with the emotional toll of the game, consider taking a page from Argentina, a country whose love of soccer is perhaps only rivaled by its passion for psychoanalysis.

— Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
Others demonstrate a star’s deep passion for agriculture or oenology.

— Emily Saladino, Washington Post, 17 July 2026

Definition of passion

Noun

Any greater eroticism is largely kept off screen, but such scenes crackle with sensual possibility.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 July 2026
Piercing the sterility of contemporary life with the disruptive transgression of eroticism, Silver’s film features dreamy fantasy sequences that interrupt and disrupt, drawing us expertly into its characters’ sensual and unusual interiority.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 2 July 2026

Definition of eroticism

Noun

Through the eyes of a scammer, America is a nation of satyrs and harlots, our concupiscence interrupted only by occasional trips to Walmart or the gas station.

— Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
Gregory of Nyssa, contemplating the Christian horror of concupiscence, once theorized that had not Adam and Eve sinned, the two of them would have remained virgins and reproduced in whatever way angels did.

— David Harsanyi, National Review, 8 June 2023

Definition of concupiscence

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