figurative. An uneasy desire or hankering: = itch, n. 2.

Evil or sinful desire.

figurative. An uneasy or restless desire or hankering after something; a restless propensity to do something: usually spoken contemptuously. Const. of…

figurative. A tingling or ‘itching’ to do something; uneasy desire, craving, hankering.

= impatience, n. 2a: esp. as a quality or disposition; also, with plural, an instance of this.

An ‘itch’ for doing something, as in the insanabile scribendi cacoēthes (incurable passion for writing) of Juvenal.

esp. Intolerance of delay; restlessness of desire or expectation; restless longing or eagerness.

A continual or recurrent itching; figurative a compelling desire or craving.

Excessive or inappropriate curiosity or desire; = prurience, n. 3. Now rare.

figurative. A restless desire. Cf. itch, n. 2. Obsolete.

Excessive or inappropriate desire or curiosity.