lasciviousness

[ luh-siv-ee-uhs-nis ]

/ ləˈsɪv i əs nɪs /

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noun

unrestrained sexual behavior, or a habitual inclination to such behavior; lustfulness: They celebrated their victory with an orgy of drunken lasciviousness.

a lustful or lewd quality; the quality of arousing sexual desire: She smiled with a hint of lasciviousness in her eyes.

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Origin of lasciviousness

lascivious + -ness

OTHER WORDS FROM lasciviousness

o·ver·las·civ·i·ous·ness, noun

Words nearby lasciviousness

lascar, Las Casas, Lascaux, Lascaux Cave, lascivious, lasciviousness, Las Cruces, Lasdun, lase, laser, laser beam

How to use lasciviousness in a sentence

What of Liszt, with his cheap playacting, his incurable lasciviousness, his plebeian warts?
A Book of Prefaces|H. L. Mencken
They often contain an element of what we would call lasciviousness, but to the Manbo they merely represent ordinary natural acts.
The Manbos of Mindano|John M. Garvan
They lived simply and disapproved of dancing because it induced lasciviousness and of theater because of its lewdness.
Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed.|S. A. Reilly
He encouraged, countenanced, and promoted lasciviousness, and all ungodliness there.
The Holy War made by Shaddai upon Diabolus|John Bunyan

With a few strokes he could give lasciviousness to a lip, desire to an eye, scorn and contempt often, nobility rarely.
Hogarth|C. Lewis Hind