promiscuity
Americannoun
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the state of being promiscuous.
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promiscuous sexual behavior.
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an indiscriminate mixture.
noun
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promiscuous sexual behaviour
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indiscriminate mingling, mixture, or confusion, as of parts or elements
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of promiscuity
First recorded in 1840–50; promiscu(ous) + -ity; compare French promiscuité
Example Sentences
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And in Venezuela, physicians say parents and governments also resist the vaccine due to cultural taboos and the false notion that girls will see it as a ticket to promiscuity.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2024
These letters, for all their promiscuity and turbulence, are a hymn to stability.
From New York Times • May 16, 2022
These machines, called spectrum analysers, discovered a strange disturbance in the force, if you’ll pardon the franchise-reference promiscuity.
From The Guardian • Sep. 27, 2020
For one, remind those who say the HPV vaccine will increase promiscuity in teens that they were required to vaccinate their infants and children against hepatitis B, which is a sexually transmitted virus.
From Scientific American • Mar. 5, 2020
This means that the origin of the family institution lies in the period before any group formations now open to our study, and promiscuity is an inference as to what preceded what we can find.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
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