prurience
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈprʊəriəns/
- Offensive
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- The mode of literature known as "confessional" often provokes one of two unfair responses: smug dismissal or eagerness to profit from public prurience.
Examples
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He wants to console her and protect her, tormented by the pity that invades his prurience.
Fiction book (1992) -
If there is prurience operating here, it would be homosexual, and its probability depends on more than the iconography of the male nude.
Academic text (1999) -
Masquerading as friendship, your prurience becomes doubly disgusting.
Fiction book (1991) -
Her throat gleamed with sweat as she felt the great god star, his single-eyed prurience.
Fiction book (1993) -
Perverse pubescent prurience is the bane of my existence.
Fiction book (1995) -
It seems to be the sexual implications of this violent attack that make the painting uneasy viewing for us, and in particular the mixture of prurience and piety.
Academic text (2006) -
The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, which in Hebrew may be etymologically interpreted as the tree of sex, was envisaged as having been infused with passion and prurience by the snake.
Academic text (1990) -
"Until now, the marquis's wife has been an obstacle to his fantasy, but when her curiosity lures her into innocent prurience, she is projected into his fantasy.
Academic text (1995) -
I will presume that you would just as soon be spared the details of our intimacy, that you have been sated with the prurience-by-extension that American media life has popularized.
Fiction book (1999) -
The magazine was criticized for its prurience and focus on sensational stories.
Synonyms
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5.2
A very strong desire for something, often for things people see as forbidden
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7.5
A person's desire to have sex
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3.8
A strong wish to have sex with another person
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9.6
Strong desire for sex and actions that offend other people
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9.9
A strong sexual desire for another person
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9.3
A strong interest in physical and sexual pleasure
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9.9
A strong sexual desire that many people find offensive
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9.9
Sexual behaviour that many people find rude
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7.2
A strong desire to have sex with someone
An excessive interest in sex and sexual stories
Strong sexual desire shown in an inappropriate way
Open sexual behavior that many people see as morally wrong
A strong desire to have sex
A strong habit of enjoying sexual stories like magazines
A strong feeling of wanting to have sex
Antonyms
How Prurient
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Prurience comes from the Latin word prurire, which means 'to itch' or 'to long for', so you can picture it as an 'itch' for sexual things. That's why prurience means an excessive or unhealthy interest in sexual matters.