prurience in English

noun

[pru·ri·ence || 'prʊrɪəns /'prʊər-]

lustfulness, licentiousness, state of being obsessed with sex; state of promoting lustful thoughts or behavio

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1. Synonyms for Carnality include sensuality, voluptuousness, lust, bestiality, debauchery, fleshliness, hedonism, lechery, prurience and sybaritism

2. Any sense of prurience is relieved by Mr Kahr's prose , which is sympathetic, witty and erudite.

3. There is no folly so Besotted that the idiotic rivalries of society, the prurience, the rashness, the blindness of youth, will not hurry a man to its commission

4. Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word Carnality. Princeton's WordNet (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: prurience, pruriency, lasciviousness, Carnality, lubricity (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness

5. ‘The Cheapness of so many extrovert renderings was here entirely absent.’ ‘He defiled everything political—in standards, in methods, in Cheapness and vulgarity.’ ‘The only satire going on, as far as I can tell, is the Cheapness of this sort of prurience-as-moral-outrage.’

6. Amorousness: 1 n a feeling of love or fondness Synonyms: enamoredness Type of: love a strong positive emotion of regard and affection n the arousal of feelings of sexual desire Synonyms: amativeness , eroticism , erotism , sexiness Types: carnality , lasciviousness , lubricity , prurience , pruriency feeling morbid sexual desire or a

7. ‘Later the Puritans surrender to prurience and fornicate with anything in reach: one another, members of the audience, a lifesize doll that actually does come to life and tries Clumsily, comically, to seduce a fellow in the front row.’ ‘I was Clumsily saying that maybe it was too big for her.’