Usually means: Obscene interest in sexual matters.
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  1. prurience: Merriam-Webster
  2. prurience: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prurience: Collins English Dictionary
  4. prurience: Vocabulary.com
  5. prurience: Wordnik
  6. prurience: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. prurience: Wiktionary
  8. Prurience, prurience: Dictionary.com
  9. Prurience: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Prurience: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. prurience: Rhymezone
  12. Prurience: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. prurience: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. prurience: FreeDictionary.org
  15. prurience: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. prurience: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. prurience: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (prurience)

▸ noun:  The quality of being prurient.

Similar:
pruriency, lasciviousness, carnality, prudeness, prudity, prudishness, prudery, purtiness, perversity, unprudishness, more...

Opposite:
chastity, modesty, purity

Types:
lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, salacious, prurient, more...

Adjectives:
sexual, own, mere, male, extraordinary, disgusting, public, literary, such, morbid, certain

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Similar:
pruriency, lasciviousness, carnality, prudeness, prudity, prudishness, prudery, purtiness, perversity, unprudishness, more...

Opposite:
chastity, modesty, purity

Types:
lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, salacious, prurient, more...

Adjectives:
sexual, own, mere, male, extraordinary, disgusting, public, literary, such, morbid, certain

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     burgundy,     ruby,     maroon, more...



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