concupiscence
Meanings
noun
- An ardent desire, especially sexual desire; lust.
- the desire of a person's lower appetite, contrary to reason, which subjugates and inclines them to experience temptation and to give in to sin, due to the Fall and original sin.
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Etymology
From Latin concupīscentia, from concupīscō (“to desire strongly, to desire eagerly; to covet”).
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