lasciviousness

[ luh-siv-ee-uhs-nis ]

noun

1. unrestrained sexual behavior, or a habitual inclination to such behavior; lustfulness:

   They celebrated their victory with an orgy of drunken lasciviousness.

2. a lustful or lewd quality; the quality of arousing sexual desire:

   She smiled with a hint of lasciviousness in her eyes.

Other Words From

• o·ver·las·civ·i·ous·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of lasciviousness¹

lascivious ( def ) + -ness ( def )

Example Sentences

Her story did not gain her much support: Two decades ago, and long before MeToo, the public seemed more primed to joke about O’Reilly’s lasciviousness than to empathize with Mackris, a producer on The O’Reilly Factor.

From Slate

Instead we’re in a loose-limbed backstage melodrama, in which the gleeful lasciviousness of the original movie, with its penis pumps and fireman costumes, gives way to an infectiously sweet let’s-put-on-a-show energy.

From Los Angeles Times

The million-plus clips made to snippets of “WAP” are just a drop in a very large bucket of playful lasciviousness that includes videos made to songs by established artists like City Girls; to one-off random finds with provocative lyrics; and maybe most excitingly, to the small but quickly spreading catalog of the young rapper ppcocaine.

From New York Times

Yes, there were lawmakers who had a reputation for lasciviousness, they allowed.

From New York Times

When rock’n’roll and Little Richard were new, his preening, boasting and benign lasciviousness seemed highly individual.

From The Guardian