| Main Entry: | libidinousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire |
Synonyms: |
amativeness, ambition, appetite, ardor, aspiration, attraction, avidity, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, craze, cupidity, devotion, doting, eagerness, eroticism, erotism, fancy, fascination, fervor, fondness, frenzy, greed, hankering*, hunger, inclination, infatuation, itch, lasciviousness, lechery, libido, liking, love, lust, lustfulness, mania, motive, need, passion, predilection, proclivity, propensity, prurience, pruriency, rapaciousness, rapture, ravenousness, relish, salacity, solicitude, thirst, urge, voracity, will, wish, yearning |
| Main Entry: | vice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad habit; sin |
Synonyms: |
carnality, corruption, debasement, debauchery, decay, degeneracy, depravity, evil, evildoing, ill, immorality, indecency, iniquity, lechery, lewdness, libidinousness, licentiousness, looseness, lubricity, lust, maleficence, malignance, offense, perversion, profligacy, rot, sensuality, squalor, transgression, trespass, venality, wickedness, wrong |
| Notes: | a vice is a harmful or nasty habit or action; a vise is a heavy clamp with jaws opened and shut by a lever or screw |
Antonyms: |
good point, propriety, virtue |
| Main Entry: | lewdness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indecency |
Synonyms: |
boorishness, brutishness, carnality, coarseness, concupiscence, corruptness, debauchery, depravity, dirtiness, dissoluteness, eroticism, erotism, evil, evilness, fleshliness, grossness, impurity, incontinence, incontinency, lasciviousness, lecherousness, lechery, libidinousness, licentiousness, lubricity, lustfulness, obscenity, pederasty, pornography, prurience, pruriency, raunchiness, ribaldry, ruttishness, salaciousness, salacity, satyriasis, scurrility, smut, smuttiness, unchastity, vileness, villainy, voluptuousness, vulgarity, wantonness, wickedness |
Antonyms: |
continency, decency, modesty |
| Main Entry: | amativeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire |
Synonyms: |
amorousness, concupiscence, eroticism, erotism, libidinousness, lust, lustfulness, prurience, pruriency, sexiness |
| Main Entry: | erotism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire |
Synonyms: |
amativeness, amorousness, arousal, concupiscence, eroticism, libidinousness, lust, lustfulness, passion, prurience, pruriency, titillation |
| Main Entry: | lustfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire |
Synonyms: |
amativeness, ambition, appetite, ardor, aspiration, attraction, avidity, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, craze, cupidity, devotion, doting, eagerness, eroticism, erotism, fancy, fascination, fervor, fondness, frenzy, greed, hankering*, hunger, inclination, infatuation, itch, lasciviousness, lechery, libidinousness, libido, liking, love, lust, mania, motive, need, passion, predilection, proclivity, propensity, prurience, pruriency, rapaciousness, rapture, ravenousness, relish, salacity, solicitude, thirst, urge, voracity, will, wish, yearning |
| Main Entry: | prurience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire |
Synonyms: |
admiration, amativeness, ambition, appetite, ardor, aspiration, attraction, avidity, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, craze, cupidity, devotion, doting, eagerness, eroticism, erotism, fancy, fascination, fervor, fondness, frenzy, greed, hankering*, hunger, inclination, infatuation, itch, lasciviousness, lechery, libidinousness, libido, liking, love, lust, lustfulness, mania, motive, need, passion, predilection, proclivity, propensity, pruriency, rapaciousness, rapture, ravenousness, relish, salacity, solicitude, thirst, urge, voracity, will, wish, yearning |
| Main Entry: | pruriency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire |
Synonyms: |
admiration, amativeness, ambition, appetite, ardor, aspiration, attraction, avidity, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, craze, cupidity, devotion, doting, eagerness, eroticism, erotism, fancy, fascination, fervor, fondness, frenzy, greed, hankering*, hunger, inclination, infatuation, itch, lasciviousness, lechery, libidinousness, libido, liking, love, lust, lustfulness, mania, motive, need, passion, predilection, proclivity, propensity, prurience, rapaciousness, rapture, ravenousness, relish, salacity, solicitude, thirst, urge, voracity, will, wish, yearning |
| Concept: | Vice. |
| Category: | 3. Moral conditions |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
vice; evil-doing, evil courses; wrongdoing; wickedness, viciousness; iniquity, peccability, demerit; sin, Adam; old Adam, offending Adam., immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals; enphagy, dophagy, exophagy; want of principle, want of ballast; obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution; hardness of heart; brutality (malevolence); corruption (debasement); knavery (improbity); profligacy; flagrancy, atrocity., infirmity; weakness; weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection; error; weak side; foible; failing, failure; crying sin, besetting sin; defect, deficiency; cloven foot., den of iniquity, Alsatian den, sink of iniquity, sink of corruption, lowest dregs of vice; gusto picaresco; sewer, gutter, hellhole; brothel; gambling house; joint, pit, opium den, crack house; Sodom, Gomorrah, Babylon, Sin City., fault, crime; criminality (guilt)., sinner.
-verbs
be vicious; sin, commit sin, do amiss, err, transgfress; misdemean oneself, forget oneself, misconduct oneself; misdo, misbehave; fall, lapse, slip, trip, offend, trespass; deviate from the line of duty, deviate from the path of virtue [more]; take a wrong course, go astray; hug a sin, hug a fault; sow one's wild oats., render vicious; demoralize, brutalize; corrupt (degrade).
-adjectives
vicious; sinful; sinning; wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal; naughty, incorrect; unduteous, undutiful., unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous, unseemly, improper; dissolute, profligate, scampish; unworthy; worthless; desertless; disgraceful, recreant; reprehensible, blameworthy, uncomendable; discreditable, disreputable; Sadistic., base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villanous, of a deep dye, heinous; flagrant, flagitious; atrocious, incarnate, accursed., Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish., miscreated, misbegotten; demoralized, corrupt, depraved., evil-minded, evil-disposed; ill-conditioned; malevolent; heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless; abandoned, lost to virtue; unconscionable; sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity., incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for; culpable, reprehensible (guilty).
-adverbs
wrong; sinfully; without excuse.
-phrases
alitur vitium vivitque tegendo [Vergil]; genus est mortis male vivere [Ovid]; mala mens malus animus [Terence]; nemo repente fuit turpissimus; "the trail of the serpent is over them all" [Moore]; "to sanction vice and hunt decorum down"
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Antonyms: |
virtue |
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