sexual desire

Questions about sexual desire

What does sexual desire mean?

sexual desire means "a desire for sexual intimacy".

What is another word for sexual desire?

Close synonyms include eros, concupiscence, physical attraction. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sexual desire a common word?

sexual desire is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.