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Feeling morbid sexual desire
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pruriency
Word definitions for pruriency in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prurience \Pru"ri*ence\, Pruriency \Pru"ri*en*cy\, n. The quality or state of being prurient. The pruriency of curious ears. --Burke. There is a prurience in the speech of some. --Cowper.
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n. prurience
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. feeling morbid sexual desire [syn: prurience , lasciviousness , carnality ]
Usage examples of pruriency.
Now I talk of sheets, I must tell you, my reason for writing to you on paper of this kind is my pruriency of writing to you at large.
The question was not of Greek statues and classical books, but of modern pruriencies and shallowness and irresponsibility.