Licentiousness

Definitions: Licentiousness

Licentiousness

Noun

1. The quality of being lewd and lascivious.

2. Dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure.

Date "licentiousness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Licentiousness

Synonyms: dissipation (n), dissolution (n), profligacy (n), sexual immorality (n), wantonness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Intemperance	Dissipation; licentiousness; Adjective: debauchery; crapulence.
Laxity	Anarchy, interregnum; relaxation; loosening; Verb: remission; dead letter, brutum fulmen, misrule; license, licentiousness; insubordination; (disobedience); lynch law; (illegality); nihilism, reign of violence.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Licentiousness

English words defined with "licentiousness": Libertinism. (references)

Specialty definitions using "licentiousness": Argante ♦ Nicolaitanes. (references)

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Thomas Jefferson	1801-1809	During this course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been leveled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Licentiousness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Licentiousness" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	18	82,615

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "licentiousness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏الإ جازة الرسمية. (various references)

Bulgarian		невъздържаност (abandon, abandonment, debauchery, excess, incontinence, temper, unreserve, unrestraint), безнравственост (immorality, impurity). (various references)

Czech		prostopášnost (debauchery, dissoluteness, profligacy). (various references)

Finnish		haureellisuus (lewdness). (various references)

French		licence (licence, license, trade licence). (various references)

German		Liederlichkeit (dissipatedness, dissoluteness, fastness, libertinism, looseness, sloppiness, slovenliness, wantonness). (various references)

Greek		ακολασία (debauch, debauchery, dissipation, lewdness, orgy, profligacy, profligate, promiscuity, rakishness, wantonness), ανηθικότησ (immorality, profligacy, profligateness), ανηθικότητα (bawdiness, immorality, profligacy, profligateness, vice). (various references)

Hebrew		פריקת עול (license), פריצות (degeneration, insolence, lawlessness, obscenity, orgy, vice, violence), �"וללות (debauchery, foolishness, mirth, naughtiness, profligacy, unruly conduct), �"פקרות (anarchy, lawlessness, profligacy, wantonness). (various references)

Hungarian		kicsapongás (crapulence, debauchery, dissipation, excess, lecherousness, profligacy, toot, vice), féktelenség (bluster, boisterousness, dash, diablerie, impetuosity, rampageousness, rampancy, turbulence, unrestraint). (various references)

Italian		licenziosit� (debauchery, dissipation, dissoluteness, lack of discipline, libertinism, licence, license, profligacy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		悪性 (evil nature, lewdness, malignancy, malignant, pernicious, virulence), 不身持ち (misconduct, profligacy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ふみもち (misconduct, profligacy), あくしょう (evil nature, lewdness, malignant or virulent disease). (various references)

Manx		neusmaght (permissiveness). (various references)

Pig Latin		icentiousnesslay

Romanian		trivialitate (bawdy, triteness, vulgarism, vulgarity), imoralitate (amorality, immorality, nastiness, ordure, profligacy), caracter licenţios. (various references)

Russian		распущенность (bestiality, debauchery, laxity, licence, license, rakishness), вольность (liberty, licence, license). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		razuzdanost (abandon, looseness), raspuštenost (indiscipline, wantonness), raspojasanost, raskalašnost (abandon, profligacy). (various references)

Spanish		libertinaje (debauch, debauchery, lechery, licence, license, profligacy). (various references)

Swedish		tygellöshet (unbridled behaviour). (various references)

Turkish		hovardalık (dissoluteness, libertinage, libertinism, profligacy, rakishness, rascality, riotous living), çapkınlık (debauchery, dissipation, dissoluteness, lechery, libertinage, libertinism, profligacy, rascality, roguery, vice). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự phóng túng (abandon), sự dâm loạn, sự bừa bâi (licence, license). (various references)

Welsh		penrhyddid (license). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "licentiousness": licentiousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Licentiousness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: licenstiousness, licentiousnes, licentiuosness, liscentiousness. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-i-l-n-n-o-s-s-s-t-u"
	-3 letters: insistences, isoleucines, necessitous, tensionless.
	-4 letters: costliness, countesses, inclusions, insistence, insolences, isoleucine, licentious, oilinesses, seclusions, selections, silentness, tininesses.
	-5 letters: closeness, colistins, colitises, consensus, continues, coulisses, countless, cutinises, einsteins, elections, esculents, essonites, icinesses, inclusion, insectile, insolence, insolents, isoclines, isosceles, lenitions, lionesses, lousiness, lustiness, nescients, nicotines, noiseless, noisiness, nonissues, scentless, sciolists, secession, seclusion, seicentos, selection, sensitise.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-i-l-n-n-o-s-s-s-t-u"
	+2 letters: licentiousnesses.
	+3 letters: punctiliousnesses.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.