Antonyms for prurience


Grammar : Noun
Spell : proo r-ee-uh nt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈprʊər i ənt


Definition of prurience

Origin :
  • 1680s, from prurient + -ence. Related: Pruriency (1660s).
  • noun desire
Example sentences :
  • It is the curiosity and enthusiasm of youth rather than the prurience of age.
  • Extract from : « Aliens » by William McFee
  • There is something unpleasant, painful, degrading in this ingenious mingling of prurience and prudery.
  • Extract from : « Impressions And Comments » by Havelock Ellis
  • It is refreshing to turn from cynicism and prurience, to gentle and more harmless pleasantry.
  • Extract from : « History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) » by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
  • But, free of the prudery of the tabernacle and the prurience of the boulevard, surely the novel has a great future before it.
  • Extract from : « Belford's Magazine, Vol II, No. 10, March 1889 » by Various
  • The prurience and prudery which have poisoned sexual life in the past are alike rendered impossible.
  • Extract from : « Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) » by Havelock Ellis
  • (Insouciance is the want of desire and renunciation of prurience and not the abdication of enjoyment).
  • Extract from : « The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, vol. 3 (of 4) part 2 (of 2) » by Valmiki
  • Burton argues that the "naive indecencies of the text of The Arabian Nights are rather gaudisserie than prurience."
  • Extract from : « The Life of Sir Richard Burton » by Thomas Wright
  • He never spoke on this subject with the slobbery grin of the voluptuary, or the leer of prurience.
  • Extract from : « Flowers of Freethought » by George W. Foote
  • His enormous popularity, the widest in the world of letters, owes absolutely nothing to prurience or curiosity.
  • Extract from : « Essays in Little » by Andrew Lang
  • That amazing mixture of sententious moralities, of prurience, and of mawkish sentiment, became the rage of the Town.
  • Extract from : « Henry Fielding: A Memoir » by G. M. Godden

Synonyms for prurience

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