欲

Meaning

欲 centers on a strong inner pull toward something one lacks: longing, craving, or desire. The meanings extend naturally to greed and covetousness as excessive forms of that same wanting.

• 欲しいほしい
  N5

  wanting (to have); desiring; wishing for

• 性欲せいよく

  sexual desire; sex drive; lust

• 欲求よっきゅう
  N1

  desire; want; will; wish; urge; craving

• 欲よく
  N1

  greed; craving; desire; appetite; hunger; avarice; wants

• 欲望よくぼう
  N1

  desire; appetite; lust

• 食欲しょくよく
  N3

  appetite (for food)

• 意欲いよく
  N2

  will; desire; eagerness; interest; drive; motivation; urge; ambition

• 欲情よくじょう

  passion; passions; (sexual) desire; craving

• 強欲ごうよく

  greedy; avaricious; rapacious; insatiable

• 貪欲どんよく
  N1

  greedy; avaricious; covetous

• 欲張りよくばり
  N2

  greed; avarice; covetousness; greedy person

• 欲するほっする
  N1

  to want; to desire

• 物欲ぶつよく

  worldly desires; materialistic desires

• 禁欲きんよく

  abstinence; self-denial; celibacy; asceticism; abnegation

• 私欲しよく

  self-interest; selfish desire

• 欲張るよくばる

  to be greedy; to be avaricious; to want badly; to desire intensely; to covet

• 肉欲にくよく

  lust; lusts of the flesh; animal passions; carnal desires

• 愛欲あいよく

  passion; sexual desire; lust

• 無欲むよく
  N1

  unselfish; disinterested; unavaricious; free of avarice

• 情欲じょうよく

  passions; sexual desire; lust

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