Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'



Carnality   Listen
Carnality

noun
1.
Feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness.  Synonyms: lasciviousness, lubricity, prurience, pruriency.





Click any word on the page to get its definition
WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University
Text size:  A A


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Carnality" Quotes from Famous Books



... and so it is with the thousands of amorous rhapsodies of Hindoo, Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and other Eastern poets. Concerning the Persians, Dr. Polak remarks (I., 206) that the word Ischk (love) is always associated with the idea of carnality (Was'l). Of the Arabs, Burckardt says that "the passion of love is indeed much talked of by the inhabitants of the towns; but I doubt whether anything is meant by them more than the grossest animal desire." In his letters from the East the keen-eyed Count von Moltke notes that the Turk "passes ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck
 Read full book for free!


Words linked to "Carnality" :   erotism, amativeness, amorousness, sexiness, carnal, eroticism


Copyright © 2025 Free-Translator.com