amorous
adjective
inclined or disposed to love, especially sexual love.
amorousness
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a word derived from
amorous.
Example Sentences
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What the gods give they possibly conceal, for the average reader will not notice a superfluity of either amorousness or strength in Tony's character.
From Time Magazine Archive
He planned to have park-users sign a pledge, reading: "I will refrain from any action, posture or public display of amorousness that might be offensive to others or could set a bad example to children."
From Time Magazine Archive
He pictured all the passions of the earth since the Fall, from the devouring amorousness of Time's Revenges to the despotic fantasy of Instans Tyrannus; but he remained himself an Englishman of the middle class.
From Robert Browning by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Of all those who in Rome had ridiculed and mocked at old Pasquale Capuzzi, with his sordid avarice, his foolish amorousness, his insane jealousy, who did not wish poor tormented Marianna her liberty?
From Weird Tales. Vol. I by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
But there were horrors, too; notably the senile amorousness of Zakkuri and the offensive little figure of It, his shadow—an interpolation in the bill of fare.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
