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Feeling morbid sexual desire
Answer for the clue "Feeling morbid sexual desire ", 9 letters:
carnality
Word definitions for carnality in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being carnal. 2 A preoccupation with sexual desire.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carnality \Car*nal"i*ty\, n. [L. carnalitas.] The state of being carnal; fleshly lust, or the indulgence of lust; grossness of mind. Because of the carnality of their hearts. --Tillotson.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. feeling morbid sexual desire [syn: prurience , pruriency , lasciviousness ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "sensuality," from Late Latin carnalitas , from Latin carnalis (see carnal ). Meaning "state of being flesh, fleshliness" is from mid-15c.
Usage examples of carnality.
Cardinal Noncire, his tutor back at Savroix, had warned him that his fellow fosters might already be well versed in the coarsest habits of carnality.
Rembrandt carnality, served as his anchor in this omniverse bereft of absolutes.
He was not opposed to carnality, although the Writ cautioned against impropriety and unnaturalness.
And Rose, instinctive as she undoubtedly was, followed her instinct so far as to take on his hard-headed and merry carnality, and made a good marriage soon after she left school.
In a vast subcampus chamber of his own devising, lit by flambeaux and known to none but himself, he would keep them prisoner, not a stitch among them, and perpetrate at his whim exquisitest carnalities upon whom he chose.
Yes, she must seduce her own husband, overwhelm him with carnalities of every description, even Conscious Depravities.
And I believed you would be a blushing bride, new come to carnality.
After about three billion years of this sometimes zany, frequently tedious fugue of carnality and carnage, Godfrey Waterhouse IV was born, in Murdo, South Dakota, to Blanche, the wife of a Congregational preacher named Bunyan Waterhouse.