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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 lewdnessplay

  Familiarity information: PRURIENCY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PRURIENCY (noun)


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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