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SEXUAL DESIRE

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• SEXUAL DESIRE (noun)
The noun SEXUAL DESIRE has 1 sense:

1. a desire for sexual intimacy

Familiarity information: SEXUAL DESIRE used as a noun is very rare.

• SEXUAL DESIRE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A desire for sexual intimacy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

concupiscence; physical attraction; sexual desire; eros

Hypernyms ("sexual desire" is a kind of...):

desire (the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state)

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

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

satyriasis (abnormally intense sexual desire in men)

nymphomania (abnormally intense sexual desire in women)

lecherousness; lust; lustfulness (a strong sexual desire)

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

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

sensualism; sensuality; sensualness (desire for sensual pleasures)

passion (a feeling of strong sexual desire)

anaphrodisia (decline or absence of sexual desire)

aphrodisia (a desire for heterosexual intimacy)

the hots (intense sexual desire)

"There's always a calm before a storm."
(English proverb)
"Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand."
(Native American proverb, tribe unknown)
"I see I forget. I hear I remember. I do I understand."
(Chinese proverb)
"A horse aged thirty: don't add any more years."
(Corsican proverb)

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