Concupiscence (noun)
kon-coop-is-ens
Strong sexual desire; lust.
Middle English via Old French from late Latin concupiscentia, from Latin concupiscent- ‘beginning to desire’, from the verb concupiscere, from con- (expressing intensive force) + cupere ‘to desire’.
Example sentences
“His life was one long battle against his own concupiscence.”
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