lasciviousness

[ luh-siv-ee-uhs-nis ]
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noun
  1. unrestrained sexual behavior, or a habitual inclination to such behavior; lustfulness: They celebrated their victory with an orgy of drunken lasciviousness.

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

Origin of lasciviousness

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Other words from lasciviousness

  • o·ver·las·civ·i·ous·ness, noun

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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.

  • He encouraged, countenanced, and promoted lasciviousness, and all ungodliness there.

  • 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