Word Study
libertinism
CIDE DICTIONARY
libertinism, n.
- The state of a libertine or freedman. Hammond. [1913 Webster]
- Licentious conduct; debauchery; lewdness. [1913 Webster]
- Licentiousness of principle or opinion. [1913 Webster]"That spirit of religion and seriousness vanished all at once, and a spirit of liberty and libertinism, of infidelity and profaneness, started up in the room of it." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
libertinism
broad-mindedness, debauchery, debauchment, dissipation, dissoluteness, fastness, free thought, freethinking, gallantry, latitudinarianism, liberalism, liberation, libertarianism, libertinage, license, licentiousness, open-mindedness, profligacy, rakishness, tolerance, toleration, unbigotedness, unbridledness, venery, wenching, whoring, wildnessFor further exploring for "libertinism" in Webster Dictionary Online