lecherousness
Inappropriate sexual craving
Lecherousness is the quality of having excessive or offensive sexual desire.
It characterizes someone whose thoughts and behavior are dominated by lustful intentions, often in ways that make others uncomfortable.
The word carries strong disapproval, suggesting not just sexual interest but an unseemly preoccupation with it.
His lecherousness made him unwelcome at office parties.
Overt sexual impropriety
- lustfulnessIntense carnal desire
- carnalityPursuit of bodily pleasures
- concupiscenceIntense carnal appetite
- prurienceLustful, unhealthy curiosity
salaciousness · lewdness · licentiousness · randiness · horniness · libidinousness · wantonness · sensuality
Unrestrained indulgence in pleasure
- debaucheryExtreme indulgence in vices
- promiscuityFrequent casual sexual encounters
- rakishnessStylishly dissolute bearing
- philanderingCasual extramarital affairs
womanizing · seduction · predation · harassment · groping · advances · impropriety · misconduct
lasciviousness
Overt sexual impropriety
- lustfulnessIntense carnal desire
- carnalityPursuit of bodily pleasures
- concupiscenceIntense carnal appetite
prurience · salaciousness · lewdness · licentiousness · randiness · horniness · libidinousness · wantonness · sensuality · desire
libertinism
Unrestrained indulgence in pleasure
- debaucheryExtreme indulgence in vices
- promiscuityFrequent casual sexual encounters
- rakishnessStylishly dissolute bearing
philandering · womanizing · seduction · predation · harassment · groping · advances · impropriety · misconduct · indecency
lecherousnesschastity
Abstaining from sexual activity
celibacy · abstinence · purity · continence · virginity
lustful, salacious, lecherous, lascivious, lechery, lecher, libidinous, lechers, lecherously