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PRURIENCY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pruriency mean?
• PRURIENCY (noun)
The noun PRURIENCY has 1 sense:
1. feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
Familiarity information: PRURIENCY 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 ("pruriency" is a kind of...):
amativeness; amorousness; eroticism; erotism; sexiness (the arousal of feelings of sexual desire)
Derivation:
prurient (characterized by lust)
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