bloodlust

See also: blood lust

English

Etymology

From blood +‎ lust.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈblʌdˌlʌst/

Noun

bloodlust (countable and uncountable, plural bloodlusts)

1. A desire for bloodshed and carnage, often aroused in the heat of battle and leading to uncontrolled slaughter and torture.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     Yet the blood lust was on me now. I found myself on my feet emptying one magazine, then the other, clicking open the breech to re-load, snapping it to again, while cheering and yelling with pure ferocity and joy of slaughter as I did so.

Synonyms

• ferocity
• savagery
• barbarism

Derived terms

• bloodlusted

Translations

the desire for bloodshed

• Bulgarian: кръвожадност (bg) f (krǎvožadnost)
• Danish: blodtørst c
• Dutch: bloedlust n
• Finnish: verenhimo
• French: soif de sang f
• German: Blutrausch (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: χάρμη f (khármē)

• Italian: sete di sangue f
• Portuguese: sede de sangue f
• Russian: кровожа́дность (ru) m (krovožádnostʹ), жа́жда крови (žážda krovi)
• Serbo-Croatian: крвожеђ
• Spanish: sed de sangre
• Swedish: blodtörst (sv) c
• Volapük: saseniäl (vo)