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Concupiscence

Sexual lust; morbid carnal passion.

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Amativeness 76% connected

The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity to love.

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Amorousness 76% connected

The quality of being amorous, or inclined to sexual love; lovingness.

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Anaphrodisia 76% connected

Absence of sexual appetite.

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Eroticism 76% connected

Erotic quality.

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Fetish 76% connected

A material object supposed among certain African tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the posses…

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Love 76% connected

A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preeminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderne…

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Lust 76% connected

Pleasure.

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Nymphomania 76% connected

Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease.

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Passion 76% connected

A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ betwee…

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Satyriasis 76% connected

Immoderate venereal appetite in the male.

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Sensualism 76% connected

The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality.

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Sensuality 76% connected

The quality or state of being sensual; devotedness to the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures; luxu…

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Sensualness 76% connected

Sensuality; fleshliness.

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Desire 76% connected

To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.

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Eros 92% connected

Love; the god of love; -- by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent…

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