licentiousness
Unrestrained sensual indulgence
Licentiousness is unrestrained indulgence in sensual pleasures, particularly sexual behavior that disregards moral conventions.
The word carries strong disapproval—it suggests not just freedom but excess and moral decay: The preacher denounced the licentiousness of modern society.
Someone licentious takes liberties that violate accepted standards of conduct.
Unrestrained collective indulgence
- bacchanalWild drunken celebration
- revelryNoisy, lively celebration
- dissipationGradual loss or scattering
- carousalBoisterous drinking spree
decadence · profligacy · lasciviousness · dissoluteness · sensuality · voluptuousness · rakishness · promiscuity
Excessive sexual indulgence
- promiscuityFrequent casual sexual encounters
- fornicationIntercourse between unmarried persons
- adulteryMarried person's sexual betrayal
- lustIntense carnal appetite
carnality · lewdness · lasciviousness · wantonness · concupiscence · prurience · eroticism · infidelity
Violation of divine law
- viceBad habit or deputy
- wickednessMoral corruption or evil
- depravityProfound moral corruption
- iniquityMoral wrongdoing, grave injustice
turpitude · transgression · corruption · degeneracy · profligacy · dissipation · moral decay · perversion
Excessive consumption or enjoyment
- intemperanceHabitual lack of restraint
- immoderationLack of self-restraint
- self-indulgenceExcessive yielding to desires
- gluttonyGreedy excess in consumption
extravagance · satiation · surfeit · profligacy · hedonism · epicureanism · gratification · indulgence
Tined yard implement
- profligateRecklessly extravagant or dissolute
- hedonistSeeker of sensual satisfaction
- rouéDebauched sensualist
- lotharioHabitual seducer of women
philanderer · playboy · womanizer · lecher · seducer · voluptuary · dissolute · degenerate
orgy
Unrestrained collective indulgence
- bacchanalWild drunken celebration
- revelryNoisy, lively celebration
- dissipationGradual loss or scattering
carousal · decadence · profligacy · lasciviousness · dissoluteness · sensuality · voluptuousness · rakishness · promiscuity · lewdness
lechery
Excessive sexual indulgence
- promiscuityFrequent casual sexual encounters
- fornicationIntercourse between unmarried persons
- adulteryMarried person's sexual betrayal
lust · carnality · lewdness · lasciviousness · wantonness · concupiscence · prurience · eroticism · infidelity · salacious
sin
Violation of divine law
- viceBad habit or deputy
- wickednessMoral corruption or evil
- depravityProfound moral corruption
iniquity · turpitude · transgression · corruption · degeneracy · profligacy · dissipation · moral decay · perversion · sinfulness
overindulgence
Excessive consumption or enjoyment
- intemperanceHabitual lack of restraint
- immoderationLack of self-restraint
- self-indulgenceExcessive yielding to desires
gluttony · extravagance · satiation · surfeit · profligacy · hedonism · epicureanism · gratification · indulgence · pleasure-seeking
rake
Tined yard implement
- profligateRecklessly extravagant or dissolute
- hedonistSeeker of sensual satisfaction
- rouéDebauched sensualist
lothario · philanderer · playboy · womanizer · lecher · seducer · voluptuary · dissolute · degenerate · libertine
- decadencedecadence, decay, lavishness, aestheticism, dandyism
- deviancedeviance, perversion, perversity, aberration, abnormality
- lustlust, lustfulness, carnality, concupiscence, libido
- vicevice, debauchery, prostitution, depravity, immorality
- sexual sinsfornication, adultery, lust, lechery, lewdness
- excessexcess, too much, excessive, excessiveness, overabundance
licentiousnesstemperance
Habitual moderation in behavior
self-restraint · virtue · continence · self-discipline · rectitude
licentiousnesschastity
Abstaining from sexual activity
purity · celibacy · virginity · abstinence · modesty
licentiousnesspropriety
Correctness of conduct
decency · decorum · seemliness · decorousness · respectability
license, licensed, unlicensed, licensing, licenses, licentious, licensee, licensees, licentiate