Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Prurience \Pru"ri*ence\, Pruriency \Pru"ri*en*cy\, n.
The quality or state of being prurient.
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The pruriency of curious ears. --Burke.
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There is a prurience in the speech of some. --Cowper.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
prurience
n 1: feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
[syn: {prurience}, {pruriency}, {lasciviousness},
{carnality}, {lubricity}]