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LUBRICITY
prurience, pruriency, lasciviousness, carnality, lubricity
(noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
lubricity (countable and uncountable, plural lubricities)
Slipperiness, oiliness.
Evasiveness, shiftiness.
Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness
Synonyms: lechery, wantonness
Source: Wiktionary
Lu*bric"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. lubricitas: cf. F. lubricité.]
1. Smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property, which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil. Ray.
2. Slipperiness; instability; as, the lubricity of fortune. L'Estrange.
3. Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness; lewdness; lechery; incontinency. Sir T. Herbert. As if wantonness and lubricity were essential to that poem. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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