deseo

Definitions of deseo
  1. noun
    the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state
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    ambición, aspiración, pretensión
    a cherished desire
    tentación
    the desire to have or do something that you know you should avoid
    ansia, regosto
    an intense desire for some particular thing
    acucia, anhelación, anhelo, hambre, pujo, regosto, sed
    prolonged unfulfilled desire or need
    concupiscencia
    a desire for sexual intimacy
    antojo, capricho, extravagancia, humorada, humorado, veleidad, ventolera
    a sudden desire
    emulación
    ambition to equal or excel
    apetencia, apetito
    a feeling of craving something
    adicción
    an abnormally strong craving
    ansia
    a yearning for something or to do something
    añoranza, guayabo, nostalgia, saudade
    longing for something past
    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, hormiga, hormigueo, lascivia, picazón, picor, prurito, quemazón, reconcomio, sarna
    a strong sexual desire
    ninfomanía
    abnormally intense sexual desire in women
    descontento
    a longing for something better than the present situation
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    sentimiento
    the experiencing of affective and emotional states
  2. noun
    a strong sexual desire
    synonyms: anhelo, ansia, chañaca, comezón, hormiga, hormigueo, lascivia, picazón, picor, prurito, quemazón, reconcomio, sarna
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    concupiscencia
    a desire for sexual intimacy
  3. noun
    a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation
    synonyms: afán, impulso, instinto, pronto, prurito, reconcomio
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