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Definition of Prurience
1. Noun. Feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness.
Generic synonyms: Amativeness, Amorousness, Eroticism, Erotism, Sexiness
Derivative terms: Carnal, Lascivious, Prurient, Prurient
Definition of Prurience
1. n. The quality or state of being prurient.
Definition of Prurience
1. Noun. The quality of being prurient. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prurience
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prurience
Literary usage of Prurience
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1866)
"... become an object of attention or notoriety, sometime npon a prurience in the
sexual propensities; but quite as frequently it U pro bably real insanity. ..."
2. The Age of Shakespeare by ALGERNON CHARLES. SWINBURNE (1908)
"lence or vehemence of satire has no taint of gloating or morbid prurience in the
turbid flow of its fitful and furious rhetoric. ..."
3. The Future of Privacy by Perri 6 (1998)
"... holistic government, media prurience, the harder it is likely to be to justify
augmentation of the regulatory capacity of data protection authorities ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1871)
"What other people call prurience and indecency, we should often set down to want
of taste. For if there is one surer test of a gentleman than another it is ..."
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