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SALACITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does salacity mean?
• SALACITY (noun)
The noun SALACITY has 1 sense:
1. the trait of behaving in an obscene manner
Familiarity information: SALACITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("salacity" is a kind of...):
indecency (the quality of being indecent)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "salacity"):
dirtiness; smuttiness (obscenity in speech or writing)
Derivation:
salacious (suggestive of or tending to moral looseness)
salacious (characterized by lust)
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