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Definition: Prurience |
PrurienceNoun1. Feeling morbid sexual desire. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: PrurienceSynonyms: carnality (n), lasciviousness (n), pruriency (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Desire | Appetite, appetition, appetence, appetency; sharp appetite, keenness, hunger, stomach, twist; thirst, thirstiness; drouth, mouthwatering; itch, itching; prurience, cacoethes, cupidity, lust, concupiscence. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "Prurience" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Prurience" is used about 11 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% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "prurience"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | neps (greediness, pruriency, voracity), epsh (concupiscence, lewdness, libido, lust, pruriency, unction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | скверност (pruriency), мръсота (pruriency), похотливост (concupiscence, lasciviousness, lewdness, lubricity, pruriency, salacity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | chlípnost (lecherousness, lechery, pruriency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | هرزگی (Debauch, Debauchery, Depravity, Incontinence, Lechery, Profligacy, Ribaldry), حکه . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Geilheit (fertility, horniness, lasciviousness, lecherousness, lechery, lustfulness, luxuriance, randiness, rankness, richness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λαγνεία (concupiscence, lecherousness, lewdness, libidinousness, lust, lustfulness, sensualism, venery, wantonness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חשק ות (great desire, lasciviuosness, passion, salacity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bujaság (concupiscence, exuberance, exuberancy, immorality, lasciviousness, lecherousness, lewdness, lubricity, lust, pruriency, salacity, sins of the flesh, wantonness), érzékiség (animalism, carnality, concupiscence, eroticism, lubricity, lusciousness, pruriency, salacity, sensualism, sensuality, sensuousness, sins of the flesh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uriencepray prurido (formication, itch, pruriency, pruritus, tingle), lascívia (lecher, lubricity, lust, pruriency). (various references) mâncãrime (itch, itchiness, pruriency, tingle), lascivitate (lasciviousness, lechery, lubricity, lustfulness, pruriency). (various references) непреодолимое желание (pruriency). (various references) pohotljivost (lecherousness, lechery, pruriency, salacity, sensuality), lascivnost (pruriency). (various references) lascivia (lechery, lewdness, lust, lustfulness, pruriency, wantonness), comezón (itch, pruriency, tingle). (various references) lystnad (concupiscence, itch, pruriency), liderlighet (incontinence, lechery, lubricity, pruriency). (various references) cinsel istek (desire, pruriency), şehvetlilik (pruriency), şehvet düşkünlüğü (excessive sexual desire, lechery, pruriency, voluptuousness), arzu (affect, appetence, appetency, appetite, aspiration, conation, craving, desire, hankering, hunger, intentness, longing, lust, maggot, passion, pruriency, rage, request, thirst, urge, want, will, willingness, wish, yearning, yen). (various references) свербіж (itch, pruriency, pruritus, tingle), непереборне бажання (pruriency), похітливість (lubricity, lustfulness, pruriency). (various references) tính thích dâm dục (pruriency), sự tò mò thái quá (pruriency), sự tò mò không l nh mạnh (pruriency), sự ham muốn không l nh mạnh (pruriency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "prurience": pruriences. (additional references) | |
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"Prurience" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: puriance. (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-n-p-r-r-u" | |
-2 letters: crepier, epicure, eupneic, piercer, precure, reincur, repiner, reprice, ripener, unriper. | |
-3 letters: currie, piecer, pierce, pincer, pricer, prince, pruner, punier, purine, recipe, repine, ruiner, unripe. | |
-4 letters: creep, crepe, crier, cripe, curer, curie, enure, incur, inure, nicer, niece, pence, piece, preen, price, prier, prune, puree, purer, purin, recur, repin, rerun, ricer, ripen, riper, runic, rupee. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-n-p-r-r-u" | |
+1 letter: pruriences, underprice. | |
+2 letters: pruriencies, underpriced, underprices. | |
+3 letters: recuperating, recuperation, repercussion. | |
+4 letters: countersniper, jurisprudence, perpendicular, recuperations, repercussions, superencipher. | |
+5 letters: countersnipers, jurisprudences, mercaptopurine, perpendiculars, precariousness, superenciphers. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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