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1. A lifestyle or pattern of behaviour characterized by self-indulgence and lack of restraint, especially one involving sexual promiscuity and rejection of religious or other moral authority.
   "Only on college campuses do remnants of libertinism linger. That worries public-health officials, who are witnessing an explosion of sexually transmitted diseases."
    
2. Licentious conduct; debauchery; lewdness
   - libertinage
    
3. Licentiousness of principle or opinion
   - libertinage

Derived forms: libertinisms

Type of: indecency

Encyclopedia: Libertinism