prurience

Noun

Meaning

Alt. of Pruriency

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

lubricity carnality pruriency lasciviousness desire passion hunger greed urge lust appetite pornography thirst impurity longing

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Antonyms

good honor integrity morality purity dignity

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Hypernyms

eroticism amorousness sexiness amativeness erotism

Examples

You know that prudery is only the other side of prurience. The words are even on the same page in the dictionary. Isaac Asimov

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood. Niall Ferguson

I don't like the royal family, I don't believe in it, and I think it would best for all concerned, not least its members, living in the goldfish bowl, bound by tradition, duty and public prurience, if it was quietly abolished. Source: Internet

Sort of an for photos, but hopefully without the prurience and desperation. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

pruriception pruriceptive pruriceptor pruriency prurient pruriently