different between concupiscence vs concupiscible

English

Etymology

From Latin concupiscentia, from concup?sc? (“I desire strongly, I desire eagerly; I covet”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?n?kju?p?s?ns/

Noun

concupiscence (countable and uncountable, plural concupiscences)

1. An ardent desire, especially sexual desire; lust.
   • 1994, Newsweek, winter

     Skaters, spinning like atoms across fields of pure light, are desirable in a way that transcends mere concupiscence; they inhabit another element, and the man who would try to catch one risks, literally, falling on his ass.

   • 1997, St. Augustine, The Confessions X, 30, 41. translated by Maria Boulding

     Quite certainly you command me to refrain from concupiscence of the flesh and concupiscence of the eyes and worldy pride.

2. (Roman Catholicism) the desire of a person's lower appetite contrary to reason that subjugates and inclines him or her to both experience temptation and to give into that temptation of sin, due to the Fall and original sin

Related terms

• concupiscent (adjective)

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin concupiscentia, from concup?sc? (“I desire strongly, I desire eagerly; I covet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.ky.pi.s??s/

Noun

concupiscence f (uncountable)

1. concupiscence

Further reading

• “concupiscence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle French concupiscible, from Latin concupiscibilis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?n?kju?p?s?b?l/

Adjective

concupiscible (comparative more concupiscible, superlative most concupiscible)

1. (obsolete) Greatly to be desired or lusted after; exciting concupiscence.
2. Pertaining to concupiscence or lust; characterized by strong desire.

   • He would not, but by gift of my chaste body / To his concupiscible intemperate lust, / Release my brother […].

   • , New York Review Books, 2001, p.258:

     [Perturbations and passions] are commonly reduced into two inclinations, irascible and concupiscible.