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concupiscence::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | eros, physical attraction, sexual desire |
| Type of | desire |
| Has types | amorousness, anaphrodisia, aphrodisia, erotic love, eroticism, erotism, fetish, lecherousness, libido, love, lust, lustfulness, nymphomania, passion, satyriasis, sensualism, sensuality, sensualness, sexiness, sexual love, amativeness, the hots |
| Derivation | concupiscent |
Examples of concupiscence
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Thus begins ZZ's initiation into Beijing's world of commerce, conflict and concupiscence.
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Japanese scientists gawk at the colossal display of concupiscence.
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At its best, Losers is a sluggish, stream-of-concupiscence exposition of what Sartre called nausea.
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McNally's point seems to be that humans ought to manage the business of love with antlike efficiency and cool concupiscence.
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Our hero is no less shocked and outraged by this catechism of concupiscence than a middle-class Manhattan playgoer might be.
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Their descendants now live in sin, in the form of concupiscence, a term Augustine used in a metaphysical, not a psychological sense.
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While trying his special brand of crocodile concupiscence last week at Australia Zoo, 60 miles north of Brisbane, a 13-year-old, 176-lb.
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The consequences of the fall were transmitted to their descendants in the form of concupiscence, which is a metaphysical term, and not a psychological one.
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Lutherans believe that the nature of man is sinful, described as being without fear of God, without trust of God and with concupiscence.
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- Sexual desire: a desire for sexual intimacy
- Concupiscence from latin: con-, with + cupi, cupid - desire (usually sexual) + -escere - suffix denoting beginning of a process or state. Modern definitions tend towards an ardent, usually sensuous, longing; a strong sexual desire or lust. ...
- From the Latin word "concupiscentia:" the natural inclination or innate tendency of humans to perform evil deeds.
- [Rom.7:8; Col.3:5; 1 Th.4:5] irregular desires for carnal pleasure.
- Overpowering desire (not necessarily sexual)
- Human appetites or desires which remain disordered due to the temporal consequences of original sin, which remain even after Baptism, and which produce an inclination to sin.
- Actualized appetite for what is physically pleasant
- A tendency within all humans toward selfishness that is due to their evolutionary origin. (Wimmer)
