libertinism

American  

[lib-er-tee-niz-uhm, -ti-] / ˈlɪb ər tiˌnɪz əm, -tɪ- /

Or libertinage

noun

1. libertine practices or habits of life; disregard of authority or convention in sexual or religious matters.

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Etymology

Origin of libertinism

First recorded in 1605–15; libertine + -ism

Example Sentences

Twenty-three years later, there’s a new yearning for that era, when dance music embodied tech-juiced libertinism and invention.

From Los Angeles Times

The lure of liberty – and libertinism – is strong, whatever age one may be.

From Seattle Times

But the tensions in “The Rules of the Game” — between the rich and the poor, between propriety and libertinism, between order and pandemonium — are so refined as to be almost sui generis.

From New York Times

The contrast is a provocative one; if Vanessa’s libertinism feels more of a piece with Bloomsbury’s contemporary reputation, Virginia’s tense and worried physicality has become — unfairly, I think — associated with her brand of modernism.

From New York Times

But to return to Silicon Valley: there is even a term for the school of thought that defines this synthesis of counterculture libertinism and techno-utopianism: it is called the California Ideology.

From Salon