prurience

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pru=ri=ence

CIDE DICTIONARY

prurience, n. 

 The quality or state of being prurient.  [1913 Webster]
"The pruriency of curious ears."  [1913 Webster]
"There is a prurience in the speech of some."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

prurience

an universal wolf, andromania, animality, aphrodisia, appetence, appetency, appetite, appetition, bawdiness, biological urge, bodily appetite, carnal desire, carnality, clitoromania, concupiscence, coveting, craving, curiosity, curious mind, curiousness, desire, dirtiness, eromania, eroticism, eroticomania, eroticomaniac, erotism, erotomania, fleshliness, fleshly lust, furor uterinus, ghoulishness, goatishness, gynecomania, horniness, hot blood, hot pants, hunger, hysteromania, indecency, infantile sexuality, inquiring mind, inquisitiveness, interest, itch, itch for knowledge, itching, lasciviousness, lecherousness, lechery, lewdness, libidinousness, lickerishness, lively interest, lubriciousness, lubricity, lust, lustfulness, mania, meddlesomeness, mental acquisitiveness, morbid curiosity, nosiness, nymphomania, obscenity, officiousness, passion, polymorphous perversity, pruriency, prurient interest, prying, randiness, salaciousness, salacity, satyriasis, satyrism, scopophilia, sensuality, sexiness, sexual desire, sexual longing, sexual passion, sexuality, thirst, thirst for knowledge, uteromania, venereal appetite, voyeurism

ROGET THESAURUS

prurience

Desire

N desire, wish, fancy, fantasy, want, need, exigency, mind, inclination, leaning, bent, animus, partiality, penchant, predilection, propensity, willingness, liking, love, fondness, relish, longing, hankering, inkling, solicitude, anxiety, yearning, coveting, aspiration, ambition, vaulting ambition, eagerness, zeal, ardor, empressement, breathless impatience, overanxiety, impetuosity, appetite, appetition, appetence, appetency, sharp appetite, keenness, hunger, stomach, twist, thirst, thirstiness, drouth, mouthwatering, itch, itching, prurience, cacoethes, cupidity, lust, concupiscence, edge of appetite, edge of hunger, torment of Tantalus, sweet tooth, lickerish tooth, itching palm, longing eye, wistful eye, sheep's eye, greed, voracity, passion, rage, furore, mania, manie, inextinguishable desire, dipsomania, kleptomania, lover, amateur, votary, devotee, aspirant, solicitant, candidate, applicant, supplicant, cormorant, desideratum, want, a consummation devoutly to be wished, attraction, magnet, allurement, fancy, temptation, seduction, fascination, prestige, height of one's ambition, idol, whim, whimsy, whimsey, maggot, hobby, hobby-horse, Fortunatus's cap, wishing cap, wishing stone, wishing well, desirous, desiring, inclined, partial to, fain, wishful, optative, anxious, wistful, curious, at a loss for, sedulous, solicitous, craving, hungry, sharp-set, peckish, ravening, with an empty stomach, esurient, lickerish, thirsty, athirst, parched with thirst, pinched with hunger, famished, dry, drouthy, hungry as a hunter, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a church mouse, hungry as a bear, greedy, unsatisfied, unsated, unslaked, unsaturated, eager, avid, keen, burning, fervent, ardent, agog, all agog, breathless, impatient, bent on, intent on, set on, bent upon, intent upon, set upon, mad after, enrage, rabid, dying for, devoured by desire, aspiring, ambitious, vaulting, skyaspiring, high-reaching, desirable, desired, in demand, pleasing, appetizing, appetible, tantalizing, wistfully, fain, Int, would that, would that it were!, O for!, esto perpetual, the wish being father to the thought, sua cuique voluptas, hoc erat in votis, the mouth watering, the fingers itching, aut Caesar aut nullus, Cassius has a lean and hungry look, hungry as the grave, I was born to other things, not what we wish but what we want, such joy ambition finds, the sea hath bounds but deep desire hath none, ubi mel ibi apes.