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
- 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
- admiration
- amativeness
- ambition
- appetite
- ardor
- aspiration
- attraction
- avidity
- concupiscence
- covetousness
- craving
- craze
- cupidity
- devotion
- doting
- eagerness
- eroticism
- erotism
- fancy
- fascination
- fervor
- fondness
- frenzy
- greed
- hankering
- hunger
- inclination
- infatuation
- itch
- lasciviousness
- lechery
- libidinousness
- libido
- liking
- love
- lust
- lustfulness
- mania
- motive
- need
- passion
- predilection
- proclivity
- propensity
- pruriency
- rapaciousness
- rapture
- ravenousness
- relish
- salacity
- solicitude
- thirst
- urge
- voracity
- will
- wish
- yearning
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