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Lustfulness

Lustful \Lust"ful\, a.

  1. Full of lust; excited by lust.
    --Spenser.
    --Tillotson.

  2. Exciting lust; characterized by lust or sensuality. `` Lustful orgies.''
    --Milton.

  3. Strong; lusty. [Obs.] `` Lustful health.''
    --Sackville.

    Syn: sensual; fleshly; carnal; inordinate; licentious; lewd; unchaste; impure; libidinous; lecherous. -- Lust"ful*ly, adv. -- Lust"ful*ness, n.

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lustfulness

n. libidinousness, the state of being lustful

WordNet
lustfulness

n. a strong sexual desire [syn: lecherousness, lust]

Usage examples of "lustfulness".

On those rare occasions when the Imam goes out to take the Kensington air, at the centre of a square formed by eight young men in sunglasses and bulging suits, he folds his hands before him and fixes his gaze upon them, so that no element or particle of this hated city, -- this sink of iniquities which humiliates him by giving him sanctuary, so that he must be beholden to it in spite of the lustfulness, greed and vanity of its ways, -- can lodge itself, like a dust--speck, in his eyes.

Although she'd experienced that sort of shallow lustfulness before, her thoughts of Murell dwelt less on the sensuality of that brief relationship and more on the concepts exchanged and her intense desire to see him just once more.