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satyriasis
noun as in lewdness
Strong matches
- boorishness
- carnality
- coarseness
- concupiscence
- corruptness
- debauchery
- depravity
- dirtiness
- dissoluteness
- eroticism
- erotism
- evil
- evilness
- grossness
- impurity
- incontinence
- incontinency
- lasciviousness
- lecherousness
- lechery
- licentiousness
- lubricity
- lustfulness
- obscenity
- pederasty
- pornography
- prurience
- pruriency
- ribaldry
- salaciousness
- salacity
- scurrility
- smut
- smuttiness
- vileness
- villainy
- voluptuousness
- vulgarity
- wantonness
- wickedness
Example Sentences
Mr. Rockwell had gone to SoulCycle that morning to stay lean while playing the sinuous Fosse, who had an addiction to work, women, Camels, Dexedrine and Seconal, not to mention his lifelong satyriasis.
Her mid-Atlantic accent echoed Julianne Moore, and save for a few charming stumbles over words like “satyriasis” or “vaginal” Lawrence’s turn was remarkable for being unremarkable.
To wit: “Betty Friedan’s heretical ‘The Feminine Mystique,’ which called into question . . . suburban-housewife docility and bad-boy toleration, was not published until 1963, five years after the new jets had been enabling American men to sate their satyriasis in the compliant New World.”
In the 2011 film Shame, McQueen and Fassbender offered a vividly clinical depiction of satyriasis, as a Manhattan office-worker cruises the streets, bars and subways for new conquests that never fulfill him.
Now a new study casts such doubt on previous assumptions about sex addiction that questions are even being asked about Boris Johnson's alleged satyriasis.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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