Definition of desire

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Desire (v. t.) An expressed wish; a request; petition.

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Euthanasia :: Euthanasia (n.) An easy death; a mode of dying to be desired.
Appete :: Appete (v. t.) To seek for; to desire.
Amativeness :: Amativeness (n.) The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity to love.
Reason :: Reason (n.) The faculty or capacity of the human mind by which it is distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals; the higher as distinguished from the lower cognitive faculties, sense, imagination, and memory, and in contrast to the feelings and desires. Reason comprises conception, judgment, reasoning, and the intuitional faculty. Specifically, it is the intuitional faculty, or the faculty of first truths, as distinguished from the understanding, which is called the discursive o
Vanity :: Vanity (n.) The quality or state of being vain; want of substance to satisfy desire; emptiness; unsubstantialness; unrealness; falsity.
Mortify :: Mortify (v. i.) To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline.
Complaisance :: Complaisance (n.) Disposition to please or oblige; obliging compliance with the wishes of others; a deportment indicative of a desire to please; courtesy; civility.
Covet :: Covet (v. i.) To have or indulge inordinate desire.
Desirer :: Desirer (n.) One who desires, asks, or wishes..
Want :: Want (v. i.) The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of power or knowledge for any purpose; want of food and clothing..
Disinclination :: Disinclination (n.) The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition..
Longing :: Longing (n.) An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration.
Passionate :: Passionate (a.) Characterized by passion; expressing passion; ardent in feeling or desire; vehement; warm; as, a passionate friendship..
Stomach :: Stomach (n.) The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef..
Flesh :: Flesh (n.) In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality..
Cater :: Cater (n.) By extension: To supply what is needed or desired, at theatrical or musical entertainments; -- followed by for or to..
Talent :: Talent (v. t.) Inclination; will; disposition; desire.
Happy :: Happy (superl.) Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen..
Mean :: Mean (n.) That through which, or by the help of which, an end is attained; something tending to an object desired; intermediate agency or measure; necessary condition or coagent; instrument..
Wish :: Wish (v. t.) To frame or express desires concerning; to invoke in favor of, or against, any one; to attribute, or cal down, in desire; to invoke; to imprecate..
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