| 单词 | prurience |
| 释义 | prurience (once / 79861 pages) n Prurience is when someone pays too much attention to sex. The prurience of a particular movie might have made it off limits when you were young. The prurience of a book or movie is based on the fact that it's excessively focused on sex. You might criticize your friend's gossipy stories for their prurience, and the prurience of a particular web site, magazine, or book is likely to get it banned in a high school. Prurience comes from prurient, which started out meaning "itching," and evolved to mean "having an itching desire," or "lewd." The Latin root is prurire, which means both "to itch" and "to long for." WORD FAMILYprurience: pruriences+/pruriency: pruriencies/prurient: prurience, pruriency, pruriently USAGE EXAMPLESThe reigning narratives of life on the night-club circuit tend to be proud tales of debauchery, prurience, and the gleeful shirking of grown-person responsibility. The New Yorker(Nov 15, 2016) It is not mere window-peeping prurience for a reader to crave more about an author’s background. Washington Post(Oct 07, 2016) Their disdain for the “prurience” of public curiosity about trans bodies mean there are no full nudes in the book. New York Times(Sep 13, 2016) n feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness Syn|Hyper carnality, lasciviousness, lubricity, pruriency amativeness, amorousness, eroticism, erotism, sexiness the arousal of feelings of sexual desire |
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