carnality

English

Etymology

From Middle English carnalitee, carnalyte, carnalite, from Latin carnālitās, equivalent to carnal +‎ -ity. Compare Old French charnalité.

Pronunciation

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Noun

carnality (countable and uncountable, plural carnalities)

1. The state of being carnal.
2. A preoccupation with sexual desire.

Quotations

• 1835, Robert Crawford Dillon, Lectures on some of the articles of faith of the Church of England:

  The essence of depravity, as we inherit it from Adam, and discover it in ourselves, is carnality, a state of mind which our Article describes by the word "Phronema sarkos", . . .

Translations

state of being carnal

Bulgarian: чувственост (bg) f (čuvstvenost), плътско желание (plǎtsko želanie) Irish: collaíocht f Swedish: köttslighet (sv)

preoccupation with sexual desire