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Lasciviousness

noun
1.
Feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness.  Synonyms: carnality, lubricity, prurience, pruriency.






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"Lasciviousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... profaneness, the constant tenour of his life, which seems to have been eminently virtuous, and the general tendency of his opinions, which discover no irreverence of religion, must defend him; but that the accusation of lasciviousness is unjust, the perusal of his work ...
— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson

... physiology. As long as the constitution remains unimpaired, the eye is clear and bright, but becomes languid and soulless in proportion as the brain has been enfeebled. Wild, erratic persons have a half-crazed expression of eye, while calmness, benignancy, intelligence, purity, sweetness, love, lasciviousness, anger, and all the other mental affections, express themselves quite as distinctly by the eye as ...
— Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners • B.G. Jefferis



Words linked to "Lasciviousness" :   pruriency, erotism, lubricity, lascivious, sexiness, amativeness, eroticism, prurience, amorousness



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