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| Main Entry: | lust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appetite, passion |
| Synonyms: | avidity, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, cupidity, desire, eroticism, excitement, fervor, greed, hunger, itch, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, libido, longing, thirst, urge, weakness, yen, animalism, aphrodisia, appetence, appetition, carnality, licentiousness, prurience, pruriency, salaciousness, salacity, sensualism, sensuality, wantonness |
| Antonyms: | chastity, disgust, disenchantment |
| Main Entry: | obscenity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indecency, immorality; vulgarism |
| Synonyms: | abomination, affront, atrocity, blight, coarseness, curse, dirty word*, evil, four-letter word*, impropriety, impurity, indecency, lewdness, offense, outrage, pornography, profanity, smut*, vulgarity, wrong, X-rating, bawdiness, blueness, dirtiness, dirty name, filthiness, foulness, immodesty, indelicacy, licentiousness, lubricity, porn, prurience, salacity, scatology, scurrility, sleaze, smuttiness, suggestiveness, swearword, vileness |
| Antonyms: | decency, innocence, morality, propriety, purity, uprightness, cleanness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lewdness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indecency |
| Synonyms: | coarseness, concupiscence, debauchery, depravity, eroticism, evil, evilness, impurity, incontinence, lasciviousness, lechery, obscenity, pornography, smut, villainy, vulgarity, wickedness, boorishness, brutishness, carnality, corruptness, dirtiness, dissoluteness, erotism, fleshliness, grossness, incontinency, lecherousness, libidinousness, licentiousness, lubricity, lustfulness, pederasty, prurience, pruriency, raunchiness, ribaldry, ruttishness, salaciousness, salacity, satyriasis, scurrility, smuttiness, unchastity, vileness, voluptuousness, wantonness |
| Antonyms: | decency, modesty, continency |
| Main Entry: | desire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | want, longing |
| Synonyms: | admiration, ambition, appetite, ardor, aspiration, attraction, avidity, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, craze, cupidity, devotion, doting, eagerness, fancy, fascination, fervor, fondness, frenzy, greed, hankering*, hunger, inclination, infatuation, itch*, lasciviousness, lechery, libido, liking, love, lust, mania, motive, need, passion, predilection, proclivity, propensity, rapture, relish, solicitude, thirst, urge, voracity, will, wish, yearning, rapaciousness, ravenousness, salacity |
| Antonyms: | aversion, disgust, dislike, distaste, hate, hatred, repulsion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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