carnality

English

Etymology

From Middle English carnalitee, carnalyte, carnalite, from Latin carnālitās, equivalent to carnal +‎ -ity. Compare Old French charnalité.

Noun

carnality (countable and uncountable, plural carnalities)

  1. The state of being carnal.
  2. A preoccupation with sexual desire.

Quotations
  • 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", . . .

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