concupiscence

Meaning

Noun

  • An ardent desire, especially sexual desire; lust.
  • the desire of a person's lower appetite contrary to reason that subjugates and inclines him or her to both experience temptation and to give into that temptation of sin, due to the Fall and original sin

Origin

  • From Latin concupiscentia, from concupīscō.

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