'Prurience' definitions:
Definition of 'prurience'
(from WordNet)
noun
Feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness [syn: prurience, pruriency, lasciviousness, carnality, lubricity]
Definition of 'Prurience'
From: GCIDE
- Prurience \Pru"ri*ence\, Pruriency \Pru"ri*en*cy\, n. The quality or state of being prurient. [1913 Webster]
- The pruriency of curious ears. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- There is a prurience in the speech of some. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'prurience'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- an universal wolf,
- andromania,
- animality,
- aphrodisia,
- appetence,
- appetency,
- appetite,
- appetition,
- bawdiness,
- biological urge,
- bodily appetite,
- carnal desire,
- carnality,
- clitoromania,
- concupiscence,
- coveting,
- craving,
- curiosity,
- curious mind,
- curiousness,
- desire,
- dirtiness,
- eromania,
- eroticism,
- eroticomania,
- eroticomaniac,
- erotism,
- erotomania,
- fleshliness,
- fleshly lust,
- furor uterinus,
- ghoulishness,
- goatishness,
- gynecomania,
- horniness,
- hot blood,
- hot pants,
- hunger,
- hysteromania,
- indecency,
- infantile sexuality,
- inquiring mind,
- inquisitiveness,
- interest,
- itch,
- itch for knowledge,
- itching,
- lasciviousness,
- lecherousness,
- lechery,
- lewdness,
- libidinousness,
- lickerishness,
- lively interest,
- lubriciousness,
- lubricity,
- lust,
- lustfulness,
- mania,
- meddlesomeness,
- mental acquisitiveness,
- morbid curiosity,
- nosiness,
- nymphomania,
- obscenity,
- officiousness,
- passion,
- polymorphous perversity,
- pruriency,
- prurient interest,
- prying,
- randiness,
- salaciousness,
- salacity,
- satyriasis,
- satyrism,
- scopophilia,
- sensuality,
- sexiness,
- sexual desire,
- sexual longing,
- sexual passion,
- sexuality,
- thirst,
- thirst for knowledge,
- uteromania,
- venereal appetite,
- voyeurism