Noun: prurience prûr-ee-un(t)s
- Feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
"The tabloid's prurience was evident in its sensationalized headlines";
- pruriency, lasciviousness, carnality, lubricity
Derived forms: pruriences
Type of: amativeness, amorousness, eroticism, erotism, sexiness
Encyclopedia: Prurience