desire:
1. To wish; to long-for ; to hope for; to want; to exhibit or feel desire for. To have a powerful romantic or sexual attraction for someone (or something).Synonyms: ache-for ; be-hot-for ; break-out-in-a-rash-over ; carry-a-torch for; covet ; hanker after / for; crave ; drool-over ; fall-for ; fancy ; go-for ; hanker after / for; have-a-beguin-for ; have-a-hard-on-for ; have a pash for; have-a-yen-for ; have-an-itch-for ; have-eyes-for ; have-it-bad ; have-hot-nuts-for ; have-hot-pants-for ; have-the-hots-for ; honk-for ; hunger-for ; hurting for; in-need-of ; itch-for ; keen-about / on ; languish after / for; lech (letch) after / for / over; long-for ; lust-after ; moon-for / over; partial-to ; pine-for ; set-one's-heart-on ; sigh-after ; sizzle-for ; smitten-with ; soft-on ; starved-for ; stuck-on ; take-a-fancy-to ; taken-with ; thirst-for ; turned-on-by ; wacky-about ; wish for; yearn-for ; yen-for .
2. Sexual desire, lust , passion ; a wish, a longing or craving, especially for sexual activity. Planned Parenthood : ' A feeling of sexual attraction or arousal. The first stage of the sexual response cycle .'
Synonyms, quasi-synonyms and related terms : aphrodisia ; appetence ; appetite ; appetition ; carnal-desire ; carnality; coitolimia ; concupiscence ; craving; eroticism; estrus ; heat ; horniness ; hunger ; lechery ; lewdness; libidinal craving; libido ; licentiousness ; lickerishness; longing; lust ; lustfulness; passion ; prurience ; pruriency ; restlessness; rut; salaciousness; salacity ; sensualism; sensuality; sensuous desire; wantonness; zazzle . Slang and euphemisms: all-hot-and-bothered ; all-steamed-up ; all-worked-up ; amorous ; antsy; ardent; ardor-veneris ; aroused; blazing; burning ; climactically excited; concupiscent ; covetousness; crave for; cream-for ; desire strongly; desirous; dripping-for-it ; eager; erotic ; estrous; excited; fervent ; fervid ; fiery; fired-up ; flaming ; flash-groove ; flash-in-the-pants ; fuckish ; full-of-beans ; full-of-fuck ; full-of-gism ; geared(-up) ; goatish ; hanker(ing); hard (up); have (a) fever; have-a-hard-on-for someone; have-a-lech ; have-the-hots ; have-the-hots-for someone; have-the-urge-to-merge ; heated; horny ; hot ; hot-and-bothered ; hot as a three-dollar pistol ; hot-as-a-firecracker ; hot-assed ; hot-blooded; hot-in-the-ass ; hot-in-the-biscuit ; hot-in-the-tail ; hot-to-trot ; humpy ; hunger-for ; hunky ; impassioned ; impetuous; in-a-sweat ; in-heat ; in-season ; inflamed ; inspired; itching ; itchy ; jacked-up ; juicy ; lascivious ; letch-after ; letching for; lewd ; libidinous; long-for ; lubricious ; lust-after ; lust for; lustful ; lusty ; moved by passion ; pashy ; pashful ; passional ; passionate ; perfervid ; pine (for); prurient ; quickened; rammy; randy ; red-hot ; rooty ; rousing; rutting ; ruttish ; rutty ; salacious ; sensual (craving); sexotic ; sexual-desire ; sexy ; sizzling ; steamed-(up) ; steamy ; stimulated; stirring; strong desire; sultry; sweet-tooth ; thirsty ; torrid; turned-on ; urge; warm; wet ; wet-and-willing ; white-hot; wild (about); wired(-up); wistful; worked-up ; yearning; yen ; yenny ; zealous.See also: blue-balls ; cream-one's-pants (or jeans); hot-nuts ; hot-rocks ; love-nuts .Antonyms: anaphrodisia (anaphrodesia); sexual-anesthesia ; sexual-defluvium ; sexual-inappetence .
Quotes:
(1) Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) in Cabaret (1972): ' Doesn't my body drive you wild with desire? '
(2) Barbara Stern (Caroline Aaron) to Clifford Stern (Woody Allen) in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989): ' Once the sex goes it all goes .'
(3) Frank Slade (Al Pacino) to Charlie Simms (Chris O'Donnell) in Scent of a Woman (1993): ' The day we stop looking, Charlie , is the day we die .'
See Also: ablutomania, ache for, acokoinonia, ad, Adam, adelphepothia, adelphirexia, affenliebe, agromania, aidoiomania, algophily, algorgynia, algorsenia, alibido, amative, amokoscisia, anaphrodisia, anaphrodisiac, anaphrodite, anaphroditous, aneroticism, anililagnia, anophelorastia, antaphrodisiac, antiaphrodisiac, aphrodisia, aphrodism, apodysophilia, appetence, appetency, appetent, appetite, ardor veneris, B.U., barosmia, basculophilia, basiter, basoexia, be covetous of, be hot for, bestial, blue balls, blueballs, broody, burn, burner, burning, cacoethes, carnal desire, cavaliere servente, cingulomania, clitoromania, coitophthoria, Colt's tooth, compulsion, concupiscence, concupiscent, controlling part, covet, crave, cross-dresser, cupidinous, Delilah syndrome, delire du toucher, desire, desire phase, desire stage, Diana complex, die for, dishabillopedia, do it, erogenous, Eros, erotic, eroticomania, erotogenic, erotomania, estromania, feel the Colt's tooth, fervency, fervent, fervid, Freudian slip, furor uterinus, gynecomania, hand-warmers, hanker, hankering, hard-on, have a hankering for, have a passion for, have a yen for, have an itch for, have eyes for, have hot nuts for, have hot pants for, hemotigolagnia, heteroerotic, heteroeroticism, heterosexuality, homoerotic, horniness, hot for, hots, hunger, hyperaesthesia, hyperphilia, hypoactive sexual desire, hyposexuality, hysteromania, in season, inappetence, infatuate, inhibited sexual desire, irritable bladder, ISD, isomulcia, itch, itch for, itchiness, itching, Kama, knocker, lagnesis, lagnosis, lascivia, lechery, letch, lib, libido, load, long for, lust, lust of the flesh, lustful, lustiness, lusty, mastilagnia, non-operative transsexual, pander, panderage, panderer, pandering, panderism, passional, passionate, pathic, penis envy, piss broken glass, piss pins and needles, piss razor blades, platonic, Platonic love, prurience, pruriency, prurient, salacious, salacity, set one's heart on, sex arousing, sex drive, sexual anesthesia, sexual appetite, sexual desire, sexual inappetence, sexually arousing, sizzle for, surrogate mother, tentigo, thesauromania, thigmacupidus, thigmosis, thirsty, thygatrilagnia, to die for, turn on, turned on, urge, the, uterine frenzy, uteromania, venereal, venereal disease, vincilagnia, womb, wood, yen, zazzle
Quotes Containing desire:
Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) in Cabaret (1972): ''Doesn''t my body drive you wild with desire?''
Woody Allen: ''I have an intense desire to return to the womb ; anybodys.''
Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977): ''What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore .''
Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) in Cabaret (1972): ''Doesn''t my body drive you wild with desire?''
Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) in Cabaret (1972): ''Doesn''t my body drive you wild with desire?''
Ambrose Bierce (Gregory Peck) to Harriet Winslow (Jane Fonda) in Old Gringo (1989): 'Man, as you know , is one of the most pathetic creatures on earth, condemned to a desire that contradicts all the laws of nature, to close the gap between two human beings. Some call this desire of love , and it is desperately impossible to satisfy.'
Blanche Du Bois (Vivien Leigh) to Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando) in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951): ''A woman''s charm is fifty percent illusion.''
Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders) in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945): 'Women... inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out .'
Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders) in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945): ''Women... inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out .''
Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders) in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945): 'Women... inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out .'
''A woman''s charm is fifty percent illusion.'' Blanche Du Bois (Vivien Leigh) Kowalski (Marlon Brando) in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
''A woman''s charm is fifty percent illusion.'' Blanche Du Bois (Vivien Leigh) Kowalski (Marlon Brando) in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
''A woman''s charm is fifty percent illusion.'' Blanche Du Bois (Vivien Leigh) Kowalski (Marlon Brando) in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Blanche Du Bois (Vivien Leigh) to Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando) in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951): ''A woman''s charm is fifty percent illusion.''
Paul (John Malkovich), the clown, to Jack (John Cusack), the student, in Shadows and Fog (1992): 'I never do-it with a whore . You start out with a burning desire and you end up in the morning with a burning sensation, if you know what I mean.'
Hunk, the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) and Dorothy (Judy Garland) in Wizard of Oz (1939): - Hunk: ''What have you learned, Dorothy?'' - Dorothy:''Well, I think that it wasn''t enough just to want to see Uncle Henry and Aunnie Em and that if I ever go looking for my heart''s desire again, I won''t look any further than my own back-yard , because if it isn''t there, I never really lost it to begin with.''
Paul (John Malkovich) in Shadows and Fog (1992): ''I never do-it with a whore . You start out with a burning desire and you end up in the morning with a burning sensation, if you know what I mean.''
Pino (Anthony de Sando) and a lesbian in Kiss Me Guido (1998): - Pino: ''You''re a lesbian? Hey, I''m sorry. You like girls? That''s cool , me too, but you have no desire to do-it with a guy?'' - Lesbian: ''Do you?'' - Pino: ''That''s disgusting!'' - Lesbian: ''Exactly.''
Pino (Anthony de Sando) and a lesbian in Kiss Me Guido (1998): - Pino: ''You''re a lesbian? Hey, I''m sorry. You like girls? That''s cool , me too, but you have no desire to do-it with a guy?'' - Lesbian: ''Do you?'' - Pino: ''That''s disgusting!'' - Lesbian: ''Exactly.''
Charles Panati. Sexy Origins and Intimate Things (1998): ''The most popular explanation for the link between fashion and eroticism, and rapid changes in styles, is the sex-appeal theory, also known as the theory of shifting erogenous-zones . Proponents of the theory argue that the primary purpose of all womens fashion is the desire to continually reattract the opposite-sex . The driving force behind seasonal changes in styles is to arouse men sated by last seasons "look" to turn-on to a new "look." In todays sexually liberated and sex-saturated times, fashion is driven by the seduction principle. With so much sexual imagery in the media, men get sated quickly, and women must work hard to reseduce them with styles that continually shift the erogenous zone from breasts to bellies to backs to legs to hair to lips . Men, for their part, positively yearn to be reseduced, over and over again. All of this seduction, says the theory, is to fulfill the biological imperative to continue the species, even if the sexes thwart conception at every chance they get .''
Charles Panati. Sexy Origins and Intimate Things (1998): ''The most popular explanation for the link between fashion and eroticism, and rapid changes in styles, is the sex-appeal theory, also known as the theory of shifting erogenous-zones . Proponents of the theory argue that the primary purpose of all womens fashion is the desire to continually reattract the opposite-sex . The driving force behind seasonal changes in styles is to arouse men sated by last seasons "look" to turn-on to a new "look." In todays sexually liberated and sex-saturated times, fashion is driven by the seduction principle. With so much sexual imagery in the media, men get sated quickly, and women must work hard to reseduce them with styles that continually shift the erogenous zone from breasts to bellies to backs to legs to hair to lips . Men, for their part, positively yearn to be reseduced, over and over again. All of this seduction, says the theory, is to fulfill the biological imperative to continue the species, even if the sexes thwart conception at every chance they get .''
The Detainer (Daliah Lavi), strapped naked on a couch , and the short madman Dr. Noah (Woody Allen) in Casino Royale (1967): - Detainer: ''Do you treat all the girls you desire this way?'' - Dr. Noah: ''Yes, oh yes . I undress them and tie them up . I learned that in the Boy Scouts.'' Hairdresser Rita (Julie Walters) and a client in Educating Rita (1983): - Client: ''Is that a book you''re reading? (...) What''s it called?'' - Rita: ''Of Human Bondage.'' - Client: ''Yeah? My husband''s got a lot of books like that.'' - Rita: ''Somerset Maugham books?'' - Client: ''No, bondage books.''
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