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Definition: Pruriency |
PruriencyNoun1. Feeling morbid sexual desire. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pruriency" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: PruriencySynonyms: carnality (n), lasciviousness (n), prurience (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impurity | Concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity; pruriency, lechery, lasciviency, lubricity; Sadism, sapphism. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "pruriency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | neps (greediness, prurience, voracity), epsh (concupiscence, lewdness, libido, lust, prurience, unction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | скверност (prurience), мръсота (prurience), похотливост (concupiscence, lasciviousness, lewdness, lubricity, prurience, salacity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | chlípnost (lecherousness, lechery, prurience). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bujaság (concupiscence, exuberance, exuberancy, immorality, lasciviousness, lecherousness, lewdness, lubricity, lust, prurience, salacity, sins of the flesh, wantonness), érzékiség (animalism, carnality, concupiscence, eroticism, lubricity, lusciousness, prurience, salacity, sensualism, sensuality, sensuousness, sins of the flesh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uriencypray prurido (formication, itch, prurience, pruritus, tingle), lascívia (lecher, lubricity, lust, prurience). (various references) mâncãrime (itch, itchiness, prurience, tingle), lascivitate (lasciviousness, lechery, lubricity, lustfulness, prurience). (various references) непреодолимое желание (prurience). (various references) pohotljivost (lecherousness, lechery, prurience, salacity, sensuality), lascivnost (prurience). (various references) lascivia (lechery, lewdness, lust, lustfulness, prurience, wantonness), comezón (itch, prurience, tingle). (various references) lystnad (concupiscence, itch, prurience), liderlighet (incontinence, lechery, lubricity, prurience). (various references) cinsel istek (desire, prurience), şehvetlilik (prurience), şehvet düşkünlüğü (excessive sexual desire, lechery, prurience, voluptuousness), arzu (affect, appetence, appetency, appetite, aspiration, conation, craving, desire, hankering, hunger, intentness, longing, lust, maggot, passion, prurience, rage, request, thirst, urge, want, will, willingness, wish, yearning, yen). (various references) свербіж (itch, prurience, pruritus, tingle), непереборне бажання (prurience), похітливість (lubricity, lustfulness, prurience). (various references) tính thích dâm dục (prurience), sự tò mò thái quá (prurience), sự tò mò không l nh mạnh (prurience), sự ham muốn không l nh mạnh (prurience). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-n-p-r-r-u-y" | |
-2 letters: reincur, unriper. | |
-3 letters: currie, penury, pincer, pinery, pricer, pricey, prince, pruner, punier, purine, ruiner, unripe. | |
-4 letters: crepy, crier, cripe, curer, curie, curry, eyrir, incur, inure, nicer, perry, piney, price, pricy, prier, prune, pryer, purer, purin, pyric, recur, repin, rerun, ricer, ripen, riper, runic, unrip, ureic, urine, yince. | |
-5 letters: cine, cire, cure, curn, curr, ecru. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-n-p-r-r-u-y" | |
+4 letters: perfunctorily, precautionary. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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