lasciviousness

Questions about lasciviousness

What does lasciviousness mean?

lasciviousness means "feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness".

How many syllables are in lasciviousness?

lasciviousness has 5 syllables and divides as la-sci-vi-ou-sness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for lasciviousness?

Close synonyms include prurience, pruriency, carnality, lubricity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lasciviousness a common word?

lasciviousness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.