What's the difference between concupiscent and concupiscible?

Concupiscent


Definition:

  • (a.) Having sexual lust; libidinous; lustful; lecherous; salacious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nick Offerman, the comic he-man of Parks and Recreation, stars as Ignatius J Reilly, a gluttonous and concupiscent layabout, slothfully adrift in New Orleans.
  • (2) Perhaps it is time to send a hand-picked team of handsome Scottish women to Rio to seek concupiscence on the Copacabana with some promising young locals.

Concupiscible


Definition:

  • (a.) Exciting to, or liable to be affected by, concupiscence; provoking lustful desires.
  • (a.) Exciting desire, good or evil.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nick Offerman, the comic he-man of Parks and Recreation, stars as Ignatius J Reilly, a gluttonous and concupiscent layabout, slothfully adrift in New Orleans.
  • (2) Perhaps it is time to send a hand-picked team of handsome Scottish women to Rio to seek concupiscence on the Copacabana with some promising young locals.

Words possibly related to "concupiscent"

Words possibly related to "concupiscible"