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Pruriency

Definition: Pruriency

Pruriency

Noun

1. 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: Pruriency

Synonyms: carnality (n), lasciviousness (n), prurience (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Pruriency

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Modern Translation: Pruriency

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

   

Portuguese

  

prurido (formication, itch, prurience, pruritus, tingle), lascívia (lecher, lubricity, lust, prurience). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

mâncãrime (itch, itchiness, prurience, tingle), lascivitate (lasciviousness, lechery, lubricity, lustfulness, prurience). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

непреодолимое желание (prurience). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pohotljivost (lecherousness, lechery, prurience, salacity, sensuality), lascivnost (prurience). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

lascivia (lechery, lewdness, lust, lustfulness, prurience, wantonness), comezón (itch, prurience, tingle). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

lystnad (concupiscence, itch, prurience), liderlighet (incontinence, lechery, lubricity, prurience). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukrainian

  

свербіж (itch, prurience, pruritus, tingle), непереборне бажання (prurience), похітливість (lubricity, lustfulness, prurience). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Pruriency

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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