lasciviousness
Excessive sexual appetite
Lasciviousness is lustful or lewd behavior—an inclination toward sexual desire that's considered improper or excessive.
The word appears most often in legal, religious, or formal contexts: The court found the material appealed to lasciviousness.
It suggests not just sexual feeling but its open or indecent expression.
Intense carnal appetite
- carnalityPursuit of bodily pleasures
- concupiscenceIntense carnal appetite
- libidoInnate erotic drive
- lecheryExcessive sexual indulgence
prurience · sensuality · passion · longing · craving · yearning · ardor · amorousness
Extreme indulgence in vices
- lewdnessCrude sexual indecency
- licentiousnessExcessive disregard for morality
- wantonnessUnrestrained immoral behavior
- promiscuityFrequent casual sexual encounters
indecency · immodesty · shamelessness · libertinism · dissipation · profligacy · depravity · perversion
Indecent word or act
- smutLewd content or soot
- ribaldryVulgar or indecent humor
- vulgarityOffensive coarseness in manner
- raunchinessCrude sexual vulgarity
bawdiness · salaciousness · indecency · suggestiveness · crudeness · filthiness · dirtiness · lewdness
Power to entice
- provocativenessTendency to challenge reactions
- titillationPleasurable, teasing excitement
- suggestivenessImplying more than said
- flirtatiousnessPlayfully romantic manner
coquettishness · enticement · teasing · come-hither · sultriness · temptation · tantalizing · risque
lust
Intense carnal appetite
- carnalityPursuit of bodily pleasures
- concupiscenceIntense carnal appetite
- libidoInnate erotic drive
lechery · prurience · sensuality · passion · longing · craving · yearning · ardor · amorousness · licentiousness
debauchery
Extreme indulgence in vices
- lewdnessCrude sexual indecency
- licentiousnessExcessive disregard for morality
- wantonnessUnrestrained immoral behavior
promiscuity · indecency · immodesty · shamelessness · libertinism · dissipation · profligacy · depravity · perversion · lechery
obscenity
Indecent word or act
raunchiness · bawdiness · salaciousness · indecency · suggestiveness · crudeness · filthiness · dirtiness · lewdness · profanity
seductiveness
Power to entice
- provocativenessTendency to challenge reactions
- titillationPleasurable, teasing excitement
- suggestivenessImplying more than said
flirtatiousness · coquettishness · enticement · teasing · come-hither · sultriness · temptation · tantalizing · risque · sauciness
- lustlust, lustfulness, carnality, concupiscence, libido
- vicevice, debauchery, prostitution, depravity, immorality
- vice lawssodomy laws, obscenity laws, blue laws, adultery laws, indecency laws
- sexual sinsfornication, adultery, lust, lechery, lewdness
- indulgenceindulgence, indulge, indulgent, self-indulgent, overindulgence
- scandalscandal, infamy, disgrace, coverup, cover-up
lasciviousnesschastity
Abstaining from sexual activity
celibacy · abstinence · purity · continence · virginity