carnality
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English carnalitee, carnalyte, carnalite, from Latin carnālitās, equivalent to carnal + -ity. Compare Old French charnalité.
Noun edit
carnality (countable and uncountable, plural carnalities)
- The state of being carnal.
- A preoccupation with sexual desire.
Quotations edit
- 1835, Robert Crawford Dillon, Lectures on some of the articles of faith of the Church of England:
- The essence of depravity, as we inherit it from Adam, and discover it in ourselves, is carnality, a state of mind which our Article describes by the word "Phronema sarkos", . . .
Translations edit
state of being carnal
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preoccupation with sexual desire