salacity

Questions about salacity

What does salacity mean?

salacity means "the trait of behaving in an obscene manner".

How many syllables are in salacity?

salacity has 4 syllables: sa-la-ci-ty. The stress falls on "la".

What is another word for salacity?

Close synonyms include obscenity, lewdness, bawdiness, salaciousness. 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 salacity a common word?

salacity is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.