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71lewdness — n 1. lechery, lecherousness, lubricity, goatishness, ruttishness; lust, lustfulness, concupiscence, prurience, pruriency, libidinousness, salacity, salaciousness; carnality, carnalness, carnalism, sensuality, voluptuousness, promiscuity,… …
72licentiousness — n libertinism, debauchery, dissoluteness, It. dolce vita. dissipation, profligacy, profligateness; lechery, lewdness, Pathol. satyriasis, goatishness, Pathol. nymphomania; concupiscence, lust, prurience, pruriency; lustfulness, libidinousness,… …
73lust — n 1. sexual appetite, libido, Eros, biological urge, sexual longing; sexual desire, aphrodisia, sex drive, sex energy, hot blood; sexuality, voluptuousness, sexiness, fleshliness, eroticism; rut, heat, Zool. estrus, (in female animals) Dial.… …
74proclivity — n 1. inclination, inclining, propensity, leaning, bent, turn, veering, Biol. tropism, cast; tendency, tending, bearing, verging, gravitation, drift; proneness, subjectability, aptness, liableness, likeliness, susceptibility, weakness, openness;… …
75turpitude — n 1. depravity, corruption, corruptness, corruptedness, perversion, depravation; demoralization, deterioration, corrosion, degradation, debasement, abasement, vitiation, degeneration, degeneracy, degenerateness; adulteration, pollution,… …
76voluptuousness — n 1. hedonism, sybaritism, vo luptuosity; pleasure seeking, pursuit of pleasure, la dolce vita, wild or riotous or free living, Inf. high living, Sl. partying, Sl. swinging; indulgence, self indulgence, overindulgence, intemperance, gluttony,… …
77Farquhar, George — (1678 1707) Dramatist, b. at Londonderry, s. of a clergyman, and ed. at Trinity Coll., Dublin, on leaving which he took to the stage, but had no great success as an actor. This, together with an accident in which he wounded a fellow actor with …
78prurient — /ˈpruriənt / (say proohreeuhnt) adjective 1. inclined to or characterised by lascivious thought. 2. morbidly uneasy, as desire or longing. 3. itching. 4. Botany causing itching. {Latin prūriens, present participle, itching} –prurience, pruriency …
79lust — [n] appetite, passion animalism, aphrodisia, appetence, appetition, avidity, carnality, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, cupidity, desire, eroticism, excitement, fervor, greed, hunger, itch, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, libido,… …
80prurience — prurient ► ADJECTIVE ▪ having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters. DERIVATIVES prurience noun pruriency noun pruriently adverb. ORIGIN originally in the sense «having a craving»: from Latin prurire itch, long, be wanton …
