amorousness

Even better, it created a mood of amorousness, ambivalence, intimacy and fade-out that will stick in my mind for decades to come.

Laura is an enigmatic character, curiously lacking not only in ordinary amorousness but in any significant dreams or ambitions.

His amorousness has made him a living legend.

He emphasizes that the writer’s great theme isn’t sex per se, but “amorousness: the disposition to become obsessed, to fetishize a lover.”

Strings and falsetto don’t cushion the bitterness of “Freezer Burn,” where he’s a victim of temptation, while he returns to affection in “Symmetrical,” a sleek disco revival that couches amorousness in mathematical terms.