Noun: licentiousness lI'sen-shus-nus
- The quality of being lewd and lascivious
"The licentiousness of the party shocked the more conservative guests";
- wantonness
- Dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
"Her licentiousness was the talk of the town";
- profligacy, dissipation, dissolution, looseness
Type of: immorality, intemperance, intemperateness, self-indulgence
Encyclopedia: Licentiousness