sexual urge

1. 1.

   all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses

   “he wanted a better sex life”

   “the film contained no sex or violence”

   Synonymssex

   Broaderfeeling

Questions about sexual urge

What does sexual urge mean?

sexual urge means "all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses".

What is another word for sexual urge?

Close synonyms include sex. 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 urge a common word?

sexual urge 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.