promiscuity

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n. pl. prom·is·cu·i·ties

1. The state or character of being promiscuous.

2. Promiscuous sexual relations.

3. A mixture of diverse or unrelated parts or individuals; a hodgepodge.

promiscuity [ˌprɒmɪˈskjuːɪtɪ]

1. promiscuous sexual behaviour

2. indiscriminate mingling, mixture, or confusion, as of parts or elements

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Noun

promiscuity - indulging in promiscuous (casual and indiscriminate) sexual relations

promiscuousness, sleeping around

sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice - activities associated with sexual intercourse; "they had sex in the back seat"

one-night stand - a brief sexual encounter lasting only for a single night; "he ran through a series of loveless one-night stands"

promiscuity

noun licentiousness, profligacy, sleeping around (informal), permissiveness, abandon, incontinence, depravity, immorality, debauchery, laxity, dissipation, looseness, amorality, lechery, laxness, wantonness, libertinism, promiscuousness Precautions against AIDS include wearing condoms and avoiding promiscuity.

Quotations
"She speaks eighteen languages. And she can't say no in any of them" [Dorothy Parker]
"You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin" [Joe Orton What the Butler Saw]

Translations

promiscuity [ˌprɒmɪsˈkjuːɪtɪ] N → promiscuidad f

promiscuity [ˌprɒmɪˈskjuːɪti] n (sexual) → promiscuité f

promiscuity

→ Promiskuität f, → häufiger Partnerwechsel

(liter: = confusion) → Wirrwarr m

promiscuity [ˌprɒmɪsˈkjuːɪtɪ] n (sexual) → promiscuità

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bacchanal chastity cocotte demimondaine demimonde drunken revelry fornication ill fame lady of pleasure libertinism one-night stand profligacy Promiscuousness reputation revelry sex activity sexual activity sexual practice sleeping around	I do not believe that there was in that genteel Bohemia an intensive culture of chastity, but I do not remember so crude a promiscuity as seems to be practised in the present day. Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context Philip was now more comfortable, for space was so limited that there were only studies for boys in the upper school, and till then he had lived in the great hall in which they all ate and in which the lower forms did preparation in a promiscuity which was vaguely distasteful to him. Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context American promiscuity, goodness knew, had been strange to him, but it was nothing to the queerness of American criticism. Pandora by James, Henry View in context	Prolonger Prolongment prolusion prolusory PROM prom. Promanation promenade promenade concert promenade deck promenader Promerit Promerops promethazine Promethea Promethean Prometheus promethium promilitary prominence prominency prominent prominent moth Prominent' moth prominently promiscuity promiscuous promiscuously Promiscuousness promise Promised Land promisee Promiser promising promisingly promisor Promissive Promissorily promissory promissory note prommer promo promonarchist Promont promontory Promorphological Promorphologist promorphology promote promoter promotion	Prominent North American Enterprise Linux Vendor Prominent Nuclei prominent object prominent part prominent point Prominent Point Processing Prominent Villain Prominent Villain Prominent Villain Prominent Villain Prominent' moth prominently prominently prominently prominents prominents prominents Promintory Promintory Promintory PROMIS PROMIS PROMIS PROMIS Promiscuism Promiscuism Promiscuism promiscuities promiscuities promiscuities promiscuity promiscuous promiscuous promiscuous promiscuous Promiscuous Capture Library Promiscuous DNA Promiscuous mode Promiscuous sex Promiscuous sex Promiscuous sex promiscuously promiscuously promiscuousness promiscuousness promiscuousness promiscuousness promiscuus promise promise promise promise promise Promise (disambiguation) Promise Array Management promise ill Promise Keepers Promise of Promise of marriage Promise of Value promise solemnly

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bacchanal
chastity
cocotte
demimondaine
demimonde
drunken revelry
fornication
ill fame
lady of pleasure
libertinism
one-night stand
profligacy
Promiscuousness
reputation
revelry
sex activity
sexual activity
sexual practice
sleeping around

I do not believe that there was in that genteel Bohemia an intensive culture of chastity, but I do not remember so crude a promiscuity as seems to be practised in the present day.

Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context

Philip was now more comfortable, for space was so limited that there were only studies for boys in the upper school, and till then he had lived in the great hall in which they all ate and in which the lower forms did preparation in a promiscuity which was vaguely distasteful to him.

Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context

American promiscuity, goodness knew, had been strange to him, but it was nothing to the queerness of American criticism.

Pandora by James, Henry View in context

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