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pruriency
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pruriency
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.
Wiktionary
pruriency
n. prurience
WordNet
pruriency
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.