愛欲・愛慾|あいよくaiyoku[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounpassion; sexual desire; lust
   大学生だいがくせいの時とき、有理子ゆりこが愛欲あいよくに身みを委ゆだねた。↗

   When she was at university, Yuriko abandoned herself to sexual passion.
2. noun, Buddhismattachment (esp. to one's family or a member of the opposite sex)

• Related性欲せいよくNeutralSexual desire in a plain, clinical sense; 「愛欲」 also covers loving attachment to people or things.
• Related好色こうしょくNeutralLechery as a personal trait or taste, as in 「好色漢」; does not refer to loving attachment.
• Related情欲じょうよくWrittenWritten register; desire between a man and a woman, centering on passion within a romance; unlike 「愛欲」, it excludes attachment to family.
• Related色欲しきよくWrittenWritten; lust with Buddhist or moral-condemning overtones, leaning more to the physical than 「愛欲」.
• Related淫欲いんよくWrittenWritten; lewd, carnal lust — more heavily pejorative than 「愛欲」 and very rarely used.
• Related肉欲にくよくNeutralCarnal, bodily desire, as in 「肉欲に溺れる」; set in contrast to spiritual love.
• Related獣欲じゅうよくWrittenWritten; bestial, animalistic desire, carrying strong condemnation.
• Related淫いんWrittenLicentiousness; a single character, mostly seen in compounds such as 「淫行」「淫乱」.
• Related色情しきじょうWrittenWritten; points more directly at sex than 「愛欲」 and, unlike it, excludes attachment to family.
• Related劣情れつじょうWrittenWritten; base, degraded lust with strong pejorative force, as in 「劣情を催す」.
• Related欲情よくじょうNeutralDesire or passion; also used as the verb 「欲情する」; stresses desire that has been aroused.
• Antonym無欲むよくNeutralFree of greed and craving; unselfish and detached, the opposite of 「愛欲」's clinging attachment.

Use 「性欲」 for sexual desire stated plainly. 「愛欲」 suits literary or Buddhist contexts of loving attachment to a lover or family, as in 「愛欲に溺れる」. For a pejorative slant turn to 「劣情」 or 「肉欲」.

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1. 物もの等とうに愛あい著ちょをもち執着しゅうちゃくすること。