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Definition of lust : 1. Hence: Virility; vigor; active power.
2. Inclination; desire.
3. Licentious craving; sexual appetite.
4. Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; - in a had sense; as, the lust of gain.
5. Pleasure.
6. To have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate or sinful desire, as for the gratification of the sexual appetite or of covetousness; - often with after.
7. To list; to like.

Synonyms:

inclination, yen, appetency, famish, pruriency, zest, lustfulness, proclivity, erotism, propensity, libidinousness, impulse, concupiscence, liking, appetite, luxuria, lecherousness, amativeness, eroticism, prurience, starve, proneness, sex, disposition, relish, appetence

hope, urge, eagerness, pine, fondness, need, ardency, yearning, desire, yearn, acquisitiveness, longing, covetousness, craving, want, fancy, hunger, welcome, thirst, crave, itch, expect, passion, amorousness, greed, expectation, grasp, hanker, covet, wish, long

Usage examples:

• For thy lust of love they died. - "Medea of Euripedes", Euripedes.
• Besides this natural cause of this lust, there is also a spiritual cause, of which something will be said in what follows. - "The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love", Emanuel Swedenborg.
• For I perhaps have given him some- Thou old Assistant to her Lust, whose greatest Sin is wishing, tell me who 'twas thou didst procure for her. - "The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6)", Aphra Behn.