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Prurience

noun
1.
Feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness.  Synonyms: carnality, lasciviousness, lubricity, pruriency.





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"Prurience" Quotes from Famous Books



... street asked us if we had read, or it may be some learned lucubration about the site of Troy by some one we chanced to meet at dinner. It is an unwritten chapter in the history of the human mind, how this literary prurience after new print unmans us for the enjoyment of the old songs chanted forth in the sunrise of human imagination. To ask a man or woman who spends half a lifetime in sucking magazines and new poems to read a book of Homer would be like asking a butcher's boy to whistle "Adelaida." The noises ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV • Various


Words linked to "Prurience" :   amorousness, lasciviousness, lubricity, prurient, sexiness, carnality, pruriency, amativeness, eroticism, erotism


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