sexual desire

Other forms: sexual desires

Definitions of sexual desire
  1. noun
    a desire for sexual intimacy
    synonyms: concupiscence, eros, physical attraction
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    erotic love, love, sexual love
    a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction
    aphrodisia
    a desire for heterosexual intimacy
    anaphrodisia
    decline or absence of sexual desire
    passion
    a feeling of strong sexual desire
    sensualism, sensuality, sensualness
    desire for sensual pleasures
    amativeness, amorousness, eroticism, erotism, sexiness
    the arousal of feelings of sexual desire
    libido
    (psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual urge or desire
    lecherousness, lust, lustfulness
    a strong sexual desire
    nymphomania
    abnormally intense sexual desire in women
    satyriasis
    abnormally intense sexual desire in men
    the hots
    intense sexual desire
    carnality, lasciviousness, lubricity, prurience, pruriency
    feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
    type of:
    desire
    the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state
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