PRURIENCY

prurience, pruriency, lasciviousness, carnality, lubricity

(noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

pruriency (countable and uncountable, plural pruriencies)

prurience

the pruriency of curious ears

Source: Wiktionary


Pru"ri*ence, Pru"ri*en*cy, n.

Definition: The quality or state of being prurient. The pruriency of curious ears. Burke. There is a prurience in the speech of some. Cowper.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

8 July 2024

PATH

(noun) a line or route along which something travels or moves; “the hurricane demolished houses in its path”; “the track of an animal”; “the course of the river”


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Coffee Trivia

The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.

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