Carnality

Definition: Carnality

Carnality

Noun

1. Feeling morbid sexual desire.

Date "carnality" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references)

Etymology: Carnality \Car*nal"i*ty\, noun. [Latin expression carnalitas.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Carnality

Synonyms: lasciviousness (n), prurience (n), pruriency (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Impurity	Concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity; pruriency, lechery, lasciviency, lubricity; Sadism, sapphism.
Intemperance	Noun: intemperance; sensuality, animalism, carnality; tragalism; pleasure; effeminacy, silkiness; luxury, luxuriousness; lap of pleasure, lap of luxury; free living.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Carnality

English words defined with "carnality": Carnalism. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Angel, a monument to unholy carnality, and a cesspool of marital pollution, a shameless, brazen, bulldozing female prepared to humiliate, provoke, and tantalize, savagely seeking the tranquilizer of unrestrained fulfillment. (Good Morning... and Goodbye!; writing credit: Jack Moran)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Carnality" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Carnality" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	13	97,576

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Language		Translations for "carnality"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		sensualitet, materializëm (materialism). (various references)

Arabic		‏الشهوانية. (various references)

Bulgarian		чувственост (eroticism, fleshliness, sensuality). (various references)

Czech		sensualita. (various references)

French		sexualité. (various references)

German		Sinnlichkeit (animalism, fleshliness, sensorial nature, sensualism, sensuality, sensuousness, voluptuousness). (various references)

Greek		ασέλγεια (lechery, lewdness, libidinousness, lust, profligateness, salaciousness, wantonness). (various references)

Hebrew		זמ�" (incest, lecherousness, lechery, lewdness, prostitution, salacity, whoredom). (various references)

Hungarian		érzékiség (animalism, concupiscence, eroticism, lubricity, lusciousness, prurience, pruriency, salacity, sensualism, sensuality, sensuousness, sins of the flesh). (various references)

Italian		carnalit� (fleshliness). (various references)

Manx		foalleeaght, dooghys ny foalley. (various references)

Pig Latin		arnalitycay

Portuguese		carnalidade (sexiness), sensualidade (animalism, err, flesh and blood, incontinent, lubricity, lust, self-indulgence, sensuality, sexiness, sexual pleasure, unrestraint), luxúria (eroticism, lechery, lust, luxuriance, sexiness). (various references)

Russian		чувственность (eroticism, sensationism, sensuality, sensualness, sensuousness, sexiness). (various references)

Spanish		sensualidad (fleshliness, lust, sensuality, sensuousness), posición de carnalidad. (various references)

Swedish		sinnlighet (sensuality). (various references)

Turkish		şehvet (concupiscence, desire, eroticism, flesh, lust, lustfulness, salacity, sensuality, sexual desire). (various references)

Ukranian		статеві стосунки, хтивість (animalism, concupiscence, eroticism, lust), відсутність духовних інтересів (outwardness), похіть (concupiscence, lust, will). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự ham muốn nhục dục, nhục dục (brute, concupiscence). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Carnality" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: achnelith, caninity, cardality, cardnality, carmalite, carnallite. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "carnality" (pronounced 'Car*nal"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-n-r-t-y"
	-1 letter: alacrity, analytic.
	-2 letters: actinal, anality, anticar, anticly, carinal, clarity, cranial, lactary, laniary, riantly.
	-3 letters: acinar, antiar, antral, arnica, artily, atrial, cairny, canary, carina, carlin, carnal, catlin, citral, crania, lariat, latria, litany, narial, racial, racily, ratany, ratlin, rictal, tarnal, tincal, trinal, yantra.
	-4 letters: acari, actin, alant, alary, aliya, altar, antic, antra, artal, atria, cairn, canal.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-l-n-r-t-y"
	+1 letter: tyrannical.
	+2 letters: cardinality, clairvoyant, coplanarity, frantically, intercalary, intractably, tracklaying.
	+3 letters: avuncularity, clairvoyants, fractionally, inaccurately, inarticulacy, microanalyst, narcotically, romantically, tracklayings, tyrannically, uncharitably.
	+4 letters: carbonylation, carboxylating, carboxylation, clairvoyantly, connaturality, cryptanalysis, cryptanalytic, hallucinatory, interracially, intraocularly, intrathecally, microanalysts, microanalytic, postcranially, puritanically, recalcitrancy, thrasonically.
	+5 letters: acceleratingly, aeronautically, anchoritically, antidromically, astronomically, carbonylations, carboxylations, clairaudiently, iatrogenically, inarticulately, inartistically, intracardially, intracranially, intractability, manometrically, morganatically, overanalytical, rectangularity, tyrannicalness, ultrasonically, unattractively, undramatically, unromantically, urbanistically.
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