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How do we describe passion?
How about with fervent desire?


​So many slang words are used to denote
sexual desire and experiences (example horny) and they imply exactly what is intended but lack the luster of seductive wordplay that would elevate the encounter from a “horny hookup” to an unbridled lustful explosion between two people.
Try these instead of the more common vernacular.

APODYOPSIS - the act of mentally undressing the object of your desire. Greek. Takes in the composite parts of ‘Apo’ meaning “off or away.” ‘Dy’ derived from ‘apodyterium’ or “dressing room”, and ‘Opsis’ meaning “vision or sight.”
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BAISEMAIN - seductive kiss on the back of the hand. From the French ‘baiser’ meaning “to kiss” (from Old French ‘baisier’ from Latin ‘basiare’ + mains from Latin ‘manus’ meaning “hand”
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BASOREXIA - a strong craving or hunger for kissing. ‘Orexia’ stems from the Latin ‘orexis’ meaning “appetite.”

CATAGLOTTISM - an erotic French kiss. From Ancient Greek ‘katá’ meaning “downwards” + from ‘glôtta)’ ‘glôssa’ meaning “tongue.”

CHEILOPROCLITIC - being aroused by the sight of the lips of another. From the ancient Greek words that mean “inclined toward lips.”

Pour your sweet essence in me...
​I want to dance in your rain,
shower in your dreams


​CINGULOMANIA - the fervent desire to hold someone in your arms. A term possibly coined by J.E. Schmidt for the Lecher's Lexicon (1967).

CONCUPISCENCE - ardent and lustful desire, improper or illicit desire, a lustful feeling. From mid-14th century Old French ‘concupiscence’ and directly from Late Latin ‘concupiscentia’ meaning eager desire.

DIRL- to thrill, to vibrate, penetrate, tremble or quiver. First usage 1513

FERVOR - intense fever, intense heat. From Old French fervor meaning "heat; enthusiasm, ardor, passion,” 12th century Modern French ferveur, from Latin fervor meaning "a boiling, violent heat; passion, ardor, fury," from fervere meaning "to boil; be hot.”
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​FRISSON - a shiver of pleasure (like shooting down your spine). From late 18th century French, meaning “a shiver or thrill.”

ILLECEBROUS - alluring, attractive and enticing. From Latin ‘illicere’ to “allure.”

LA DOULEUR EXQUISE - French meaning literally “exquisite pain” or the heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can never have.

LASCIVIOUS - inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd. From Middle French lascivieux or directly from Late Latin lasciviosus, from Latin lascivia meaning "lewdness, playfulness, fun, frolicsomeness, jolity," from lascivus meaning “lewd, playful, undesigned, frolicsome, wanton."

LIBIDINOUS - full of sexual lust; lustful; having a lewd and lascivious need. From the mid-15th century Old French word libidineus meaning “sinful, lusty,” 13th century Modern French libidineux or directly from Latin ‘libidinosus’ meaning full of desire, lustful," from libido "pleasure, desire, sensual passion, lust.”

MAMIHLAPINATAPAI is derived from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego and is listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the "most succinct word” and is considered one of the hardest words to translate.
  • ​It refers to "a look that without words is shared by two people who want to initiate something, but neither will start or "looking at each other hoping that either will offer to do something which both parties desire but are unwilling to do."
  • The word consists of the reflexive/passive prefix ma- (mam- before a vowel), the root ihlapi (pronounced [iɬapi]), which means "to be at a loss as what to do next.”
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​RIBALD - referencing sex in amusing and irreverent ways. From Middle English (as a noun denoting a “lowly retainer” or a “licentious or irreverent person”); from Old French ‘ribauld’ from ‘riber’ meaning “indulge in licentious pleasures” from a Germanic base meaning “prostitute.”

RISQUE- slightly indecent, liable you shock. Sexually suggestive in delicious ways. From French ‘risqué’ past participle of ‘risquer’ meaning “ to risk"

SALACIOUS - lustful. From 1660s, Latin salax (genitive salacis) meaning "lustful," probably originally "fond of leaping," as in a male animal leaping on a female in sexual advances, from salire "to leap"

SAPIOSEXUAL -someone sexually attracted first to the intelligence in others. ‘Sapio’ comes from the Latin verb ‘sapere’ meaning “to be wise” or “to have sense.”
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​SPHALLOLALIA - seductive and flirtatious banter that while intensely pleasurable it ultimately leads nowhere. From the Ancient Greek ‘sphallō’ meaning “to stumble” and ‘lalia’ meaning “talking”

TORRID - showing very intense sexual or romantic desire. From late 16th century French ‘torride’ or Latin ‘torridus’ from ‘torrere’ meaning “parch, scorch.”

UNBRIDLED- unrestrained and uninhibited. From the word ‘bridled’ meaning a restrained horse.

USTULATION - a burning lust of (desire). Medieval Latin ‘ustulation’ - ‘ustulatio’ from Latin ‘ustulatus’ past participle of ‘ustulare’ meaning “to burn, scorch.”

VOLUPTUARY -a person who’s life is devoted to the pursuit of lustful pleasures. From early 17th century Latin ‘volupt(u)arius’ from ‘voluptas’ meaning “pleasure.”

VORFREUDE- German word meaning “the intense anticipation that comes from imagining your future pleasures”

Chemistry so powerful your body aches for the man and the animal inside him

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