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Pruriency

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





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"Pruriency" Quotes from Famous Books



... for in life and poem, and in the poem of life, they have swept clouds from our sky, until all purity stands revealed, fair as the morning star smiling at Eastern lattices. In Tennyson is no slightest appeal to the sensual. He hates pruriency, making protest against it with a voice like the clangor of angry bells. In "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After," he speaks wisely and justly, in sarcasm ...
— A Hero and Some Other Folks • William A. Quayle


Words linked to "Pruriency" :   carnality, eroticism, amorousness, erotism, lubricity, amativeness, sexiness, prurient, lasciviousness


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