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salacity
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | want, longing |
| Synonyms: | admiration, ambition, appetite, ardor, aspiration, attraction, avidity, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, craze, cupidity, devotion, doting, eagerness, fancy, fascination, fervor, fondness, frenzy, greed, hankering*, hunger, inclination, infatuation, itch, lasciviousness, lechery, libido, liking, love, lust, mania, motive, need, passion, predilection, proclivity, propensity, rapaciousness, rapture, ravenousness, relish, salacity, solicitude, thirst, urge, voracity, will, wish, yearning |
| Antonyms: | aversion, disgust, dislike, distaste, hate, hatred, repulsion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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: | libidinousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire |
| Synonyms: | 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, libido, liking, love, lust, lustfulness, mania, motive, need, passion, predilection, proclivity, propensity, prurience, pruriency, rapaciousness, rapture, ravenousness, relish, salacity, solicitude, thirst, urge, voracity, will, wish, yearning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lustfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire |
| Synonyms: | 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, mania, motive, need, passion, predilection, proclivity, propensity, prurience, pruriency, rapaciousness, rapture, ravenousness, relish, salacity, solicitude, thirst, urge, voracity, will, wish, yearning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | profaneness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obscenity |
| Synonyms: | X-rating, abomination, affront, atrocity, bawdiness, blight, blueness, coarseness, curse, dirtiness, dirty name, dirty word, evil, filthiness, foulness, four-letter word, grossness, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, indecency, indelicacy, lewdness, licentiousness, lubricity, offense, outrage, porn, pornography, profanity, prurience, salacity, scatology, scurrility, scurrilousness, sleaze, smut, smuttiness, suggestiveness, swearword, vileness, vulgarity, vulgarness, wrong |
| Main Entry: | prurience |
| 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: | pruriency |
| 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, prurience, rapaciousness, rapture, ravenousness, relish, salacity, solicitude, thirst, urge, voracity, will, wish, yearning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | raunch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obscenity |
| Synonyms: | X-rating, abomination, affront, atrocity, bawdiness, blight, blueness, coarseness, curse, dirt, dirtiness, dirty name, dirty word, evil, filth, filthiness, foulness, four-letter word, grossness, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, indecency, indelicacy, lewdness, licentiousness, lubricity, offense, outrage, porn, pornography, profaneness, profanity, prurience, ribaldry, salacity, scatology, scurrility, scurrilousness, sleaze, smut, smuttiness, suggestiveness, swearword, vileness, vulgarity, vulgarness, wrong |
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