LEWDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lewdness mean? 

• LEWDNESS (noun)
  The noun LEWDNESS has 1 sense:

1. the trait of behaving in an obscene manner

  Familiarity information: LEWDNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEWDNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The trait of behaving in an obscene manner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

bawdiness; lewdness; obscenity; salaciousness; salacity

Hypernyms ("lewdness" is a kind of...):

indecency (the quality of being indecent)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lewdness"):

dirtiness; smuttiness (obscenity in speech or writing)

Derivation:

lewd (suggestive of or tending to moral looseness)

 Context examples 

Perhaps my master might refine a little in these speculations, which he had drawn from what he observed himself, or had been told him by others; however, I could not reflect without some amazement, and much sorrow, that the rudiments of lewdness, coquetry, censure, and scandal, should have place by instinct in womankind.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)