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PRURIENCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does prurience mean?
• PRURIENCE (noun)
The noun PRURIENCE has 1 sense:
1. feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
Familiarity information: PRURIENCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
carnality; lasciviousness; lubricity; prurience; pruriency
Hypernyms ("prurience" is a kind of...):
amativeness; amorousness; eroticism; erotism; sexiness (the arousal of feelings of sexual desire)
Derivation:
prurient (characterized by lust)
Context examples
There is no folly so besotted that the idiotic rivalries of society, the prurience, the rashness, the blindness of youth, will not hurry a man to its commission.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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