physical attraction

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physical attraction - a desire for sexual intimacy

desire - the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state

erotic love, sexual love, love - a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction; "their love left them indifferent to their surroundings"; "she was his first love"

aphrodisia - a desire for heterosexual intimacy

anaphrodisia - decline or absence of sexual desire

passion - a feeling of strong sexual desire

sensualism, sensuality, sensualness - desire for sensual pleasures

amativeness, sexiness, amorousness, eroticism, erotism - the arousal of feelings of sexual desire

fetish - a form of sexual desire in which gratification depends to an abnormal degree on some object or item of clothing or part of the body; "common male fetishes are breasts, legs, hair, shoes, and underwear"

libido - (psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual urge or desire

lecherousness, lust, lustfulness - a strong sexual desire

nymphomania - abnormally intense sexual desire in women

satyriasis - abnormally intense sexual desire in men

the hots - intense sexual desire

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Amativeness
Amorousness
anaphrodisia
aphrodisia
biomagnetism
concupiscence
Eros
erotic love
eroticism
erotism
fetish
lecherousness
libido
love-in
lustfulness
nymphomania
satyriasis
sensualism
sensuality

Doubtless there was another sort of fascination at work--that subtle physical attraction which delights in cheating our psychological predictions, and in compelling the men who paint sylphs, to fall in love with some bonne et brave femme, heavy- heeled and freckled.

The Lifted Veil by Eliot, George View in context

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