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prurience
[proor-ee-uhnt] 
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prurience
[proor-ee-uhnt]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire |
| Synonyms: | admiration, amativeness, ambition, appetite, ardor, aspiration, attraction, avidity, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, craze, cupidity, devotion, doting, eagerness, eroticism, erotism, fancy, fascination, fervor, fondness, frenzy, greed, hankering*, hunger, inclination, infatuation, itch, lasciviousness, lechery, libidinousness, libido, liking, love, lust, lustfulness, mania, motive, need, passion, predilection, proclivity, propensity, pruriency, rapaciousness, rapture, ravenousness, relish, salacity, solicitude, thirst, urge, voracity, will, wish, yearning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appetite, passion |
| Synonyms: | animalism, aphrodisia, appetence, appetition, avidity, carnality, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, cupidity, desire, eroticism, excitement, fervor, greed, hunger, itch, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, libido, licentiousness, longing, prurience, pruriency, salaciousness, salacity, sensualism, sensuality, thirst, urge, wantonness, weakness, yen |
| Antonyms: | chastity, disenchantment, disgust |
| Main Entry: | obscenity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indecency, immorality; vulgarism |
| Synonyms: | X-rating, abomination, affront, atrocity, bawdiness, blight, blueness, coarseness, curse, dirtiness, dirty name, dirty word, evil, filthiness, foulness, four-letter word, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, indecency, indelicacy, lewdness, licentiousness, lubricity, offense, outrage, porn, pornography, profanity, prurience, salacity, scatology, scurrility, sleaze, smut, smuttiness, suggestiveness, swearword, vileness, vulgarity, wrong |
| Antonyms: | cleanness, decency, innocence, morality, propriety, purity, uprightness |
| Main Entry: | passion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adoration, love |
| Synonyms: | affection, amorousness, amour, appetite, ardor, attachment, concupiscence, craving, crush*, desire, emoting, eroticism, excitement, fondness, infatuation, keenness, lust, prurience, urge, weakness, yen |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | concupiscence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lust |
| Synonyms: | desire, lechery, prurience, sexual desire |
| Main Entry: | lasciviousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lechery |
| Synonyms: | debauchery, lewdness, lust, lustfulness, prurience, wantonness |
| Main Entry: | lewdness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indecency |
| Synonyms: | boorishness, brutishness, carnality, coarseness, concupiscence, corruptness, debauchery, depravity, dirtiness, dissoluteness, eroticism, erotism, evil, evilness, fleshliness, grossness, impurity, incontinence, incontinency, lasciviousness, lecherousness, lechery, libidinousness, licentiousness, lubricity, lustfulness, obscenity, pederasty, pornography, prurience, pruriency, raunchiness, ribaldry, ruttishness, salaciousness, salacity, satyriasis, scurrility, smut, smuttiness, unchastity, vileness, villainy, voluptuousness, vulgarity, wantonness, wickedness |
| Antonyms: | continency, decency, modesty |
| Main Entry: | amativeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire |
| Synonyms: | amorousness, concupiscence, eroticism, erotism, libidinousness, lust, lustfulness, prurience, pruriency, sexiness |
| Main Entry: | carnality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sensuality |
| Synonyms: | fleshliness, lasciviousness, lubricity, prurience, pruriency |
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