Usually means: Excessive interest in sexual matters.
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  10. Pruriency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. pruriency: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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▸ noun:  prurience

Similar:
prurience, lasciviousness, carnality, prudity, prurition, prudishness, prudism, prudeness, prudery, purtiness, more...

Opposite:
chastity, purity, innocence

Types:
lasciviousness, lewdness, salaciousness, carnality, indecency, coarseness, crudeness, more...

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Similar:
prurience, lasciviousness, carnality, prudity, prurition, prudishness, prudism, prudeness, prudery, purtiness, more...

Opposite:
chastity, purity, innocence

Types:
lasciviousness, lewdness, salaciousness, carnality, indecency, coarseness, crudeness, more...



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