amorousness
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What the gods give they possibly conceal, for the average reader will not notice a superfluity of either amorousness or strength in Tony's character.
From Time Magazine Archive
He planned to have park-users sign a pledge, reading: "I will refrain from any action, posture or public display of amorousness that might be offensive to others or could set a bad example to children."
From Time Magazine Archive
Of all those who in Rome had ridiculed and mocked at old Pasquale Capuzzi, with his sordid avarice, his foolish amorousness, his insane jealousy, who did not wish poor tormented Marianna her liberty?
From Weird Tales. Vol. I by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
Romance, in American fiction, still means only a somewhat childish amorousness and sentimentality—the love affairs of Paul and Virginia, or the pale adulteries of their elders.
From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
The craving for escape may be, and usually is, answered by sentimental romance, where every emotion, from patriotism to amorousness, is mawkish and unreal.
From Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Henry Seidel Canby
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