## Meanings
1. A strong feeling of sexual desire.
2. A strong, eager desire for something, not necessarily sexual.
3. To feel a strong desire for someone or something.

## Examples
- The film portrays their relationship as driven entirely by lust.
- His lust for power led him to betray his closest friends.
- He lusted after wealth and the status it would bring.

## Synonyms
- aphrodisia
- carnality
- concupiscence
- lech
- love
- pride

## Antonyms
- apathy
- aphanisis
- chastity
- lustlessness

## Derived Forms
- antilust
- bloodlust
- instalust
- luster
- lustful
- lustic
- lustihood
- lustily
- lustiness
- lustless
- lustmaking
- lustsome

## Related Forms
- lustfulness
- randy
- wanderlust

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: lust
- Root: *lustu
- Root: *lustuz

## Etymology
From Middle English lust, from Old English lust (“lust, pleasure, longing”), from Proto-West Germanic *lustu, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz. Akin to Old Saxon, Dutch lust, Old Frisian, Old High German, German Lust, Swedish lust, Danish lyst, Icelandic lyst, Old Norse losti, Gothic 𐌻𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 (lustus), and perhaps to Sanskrit लष् (laṣ), लषति (laṣati, “to desire”) and Albanian lushë (“bitch, savage dog, promiscuous woman”), or to English loose. Compare list (“to please”), listless.

## AI Etymology
Lust is from Middle English lust, from Old English lust (“lust, pleasure, longing”), from Proto-West Germanic *lustu, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz. Akin to Old Saxon, Dutch lust, Old Frisian, Old High German, German Lust, Swedish lust, Danish lyst, Icelandic lyst, Old Norse losti, Gothic 𐌻𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 (lustus), and perhaps to Sanskrit लष् (laṣ), लषति (laṣati, “to desire”) and Albanian lushë (“bitch, savage dog, promiscuous woman”), or to English loose. Compare list (“to please”), listless. In present-day use, it can mean a strong feeling of sexual desire, or a strong, eager desire for something, not necessarily sexual. Derived formations include antilust, bloodlust, instalust, luster, and lustful.

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