Lasciviousness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The characteristic or state of being lascivious. uncountable

    "For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed euill thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, / Thefts, couetouſneſſe, wickedneſſe, deceit, laſciuiouſneſſe, an euill eye, blaſphemie, pride, fooliſhneſſe: / All theſe euill things come from within, and defile the man."

  2. 2
    feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness wordnet

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admirationadorationaffectionagapeanimalismanimality

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"He said that women were the cause of his lasciviousness, as though he weren't the one to blame."

Etymology

From lascivious + -ness.

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