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Desire may refer to:

Concepts

• Desire (emotion), a sense of longing or hoping
• Desire (in Philosophy)
• Desire (psychoanalysis)
• Interpersonal attraction
• Lust, intense craving for self gratification
• Libido, sexual desire
• Greed, selfish pursuit of wealth, power, or possessions
• Want, in economics
• Preference, on which microeconomic theory is based
• Motivation, thought that leads to an action
• Tanha in Buddhist psychology, as described in the Four Noble Truths
• A concept in Lacanian psychoanalytic theory related to the Oedipus complex

Music

• Desire (album), by Bob Dylan (1976)
• Desire (Tuxedomoon album), an album by Tuxedomoon (1981)
• Desire (Tom Scott album), (1982)
• Desire (Pharoahe Monch album), (2007)
• "Desire" (Andy Gibb song), (1980)
• "Desire" (U2 song), (1988)
• "Desire" (Eurovision song), a song by Claudette Pace (2000)
• "Desire" (Do As Infinity song), (2001)
• "Desire" (Ryan Adams song), (2002)
• "Desire" (Geri Halliwell song), (2005)
• "Desire", a song by Talk Talk on their Spirit of Eden album (1988)
• "Desire", a song by Suicide Commando on their Construct-Destruct album (1998)
• "Desire", a heavy metal song by Ozzy Osbourne on his No More Tears album (1991)
• "Desire", a song by Yanni on his Dare to Dream album (1992)
• "Desire", a song by En Vogue on their Funky Divas album (1992)
• "Desire", a song by Raheem DeVaughn on his Love Behind the Melody album (2008)
• "Desire", a song by Toad the Wet Sprocket on their album Coil (1997)

Film and television

• Desire (1936 film), a 1936 film starring Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper
• Desire (TV series), a telenovela on the United States broadcast television network MyNetworkTV
• Desire Inc. (1990), a video documentary of unconventional television advertisements created by video artist Lynn Hershman
• Wings of Desire, a 1987 film by German director Wim Wenders
• "Desire", an episode from season 3 of the medical drama Grey's Anatomy

Fiction

• Desire (DC Comics), a fictional character The Sandman comic series
• Desire (Manga), a yaoi manga written by Maki Kazumi and illustrated by Yukine Honami
• A Streetcar Named Desire (play), a stage play by Tennessee Williams

Other uses

• Desire line, the shortest route between an origin and destination, which shows where people want to travel
• Desire Street, a famous street in New Orleans, Louisiana
• Desire, a ship sailed by Thomas Cavendish and John Davis on their explorations in the 1590s

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