Definition

Noun: 1. A strong, intense, and often uncontrolled sexual desire: The state or quality of having powerful, passionate, and sometimes excessive sexual cravings.

Usage

Lustfulness is a formal or literary noun used to describe a powerful, consuming sexual appetite. It often carries a negative connotation, implying a lack of restraint or a purely physical, non-emotional desire.

Examples

• The novel explored the themes of lustfulness and moral decay within the aristocracy.
• His lustfulness was his tragic flaw, leading him to make reckless decisions.
• The preacher warned against the sins of greed and lustfulness.

Advanced Usage

• In a psychological or analytical context: The term can be used to discuss drives or impulses in a clinical or philosophical sense.
  • The study examined the role of primal lustfulness in human behavior.

Variants and Related Words

• Lust (n): The more common noun form for intense sexual desire.
• Lustful (adj): Having or showing strong feelings of sexual desire.
  • He gave her a lustful glance.
• Lustfully (adv): In a manner showing strong sexual desire.

Synonyms

• Lechery: Excessive or offensive sexual desire.
• Lasciviousness: Feeling or revealing an overt and often offensive sexual desire.
• Libidinousness: Characterized by lust.
• Carnality: The quality of being physical, especially sexual, rather than spiritual.

Antonyms

• Chastity: The state of refraining from sexual activity.
• Celibacy: The state of abstaining from marriage and sexual relations.
• Asexuality: A lack of sexual attraction to others.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• "Blind with lustfulness": So consumed by sexual desire that one cannot think rationally.
  • He was blind with lustfulness and failed to see the danger.

Noun

1. a strong sexual desire