concupiscencia

Definitions of concupiscencia
  1. noun
    strong desire to acquire and possess
    synonyms: adquisividad
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    bibliomanía
    preoccupation with the acquisition and possession of books
  2. noun
    a desire for sexual intimacy
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    animalidad, rijo, rijosidad, sensualidad, sensualismo, voluptuosidad
    desire for sensual pleasures
    cachondez, erotismo, sexy
    the arousal of feelings of sexual desire
    libido, libídine, líbido
    (psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual urge or desire
    anhelo, ansia, chañaca, comezón, deseo, hormiga, hormigueo, lascivia, picazón, picor, prurito, quemazón, reconcomio, sarna
    a strong sexual desire
    ninfomanía
    abnormally intense sexual desire in women
    carnalidad, carne, lascivia, libídine, lujuria, salacidad
    feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
    type of:
    deseo
    the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state
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