libertinism

American  

[lib-er-tee-niz-uhm, -ti-] / ˈlɪb ər tiˌnɪz əm, -tɪ- /

Or libertinage

noun

1. libertine practices or habits of life; disregard of authority or convention in sexual or religious matters.

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Etymology

Origin of libertinism

First recorded in 1605–15; libertine + -ism

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libertinism

Twenty-three years later, there’s a new yearning for that era, when dance music embodied tech-juiced libertinism and invention.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2025

But to return to Silicon Valley: there is even a term for the school of thought that defines this synthesis of counterculture libertinism and techno-utopianism: it is called the California Ideology.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2019

As a flip side to his alleged libertinism, Hart was a moral scold.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 5, 2018

Still, the inevitability of that battle doesn't require embracing strategic libertinism at every turn and hardening your battles lines at every front.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2018

To enjoy a little brief authority, he would enslave universal mankind, and declare, as Solomon did, after exhausting the catalogue of tyranny and libertinism, "all is vanity"—emptiness!

From Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South by Fortune, Timothy Thomas