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libertinism

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lib·er·tin·ism  (lbr-t-nzm)
n.
1. The state or quality of being libertine.
2. The behavior characteristic of a libertine; promiscuity.
libertinism
a tendency to unrestrained, often licentious or dissolute conduct. Also libertinage. — libertine, n., adj.
See also: Behavior
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And so the young man passes out of his original nature, which was trained in the school of necessity, into the freedom and libertinism of useless and unnecessary pleasures.
The Republic by Plato View in context
I wasted my energies in numberless frivolous pursuits, and in the short-lived love intrigues that are the disgrace of salons in Paris, where every one seeks for love, grows blase in the pursuit, falls into the libertinism sanctioned by polite society, and ends by feeling as much astonished at real passion as the world is over a heroic action.
The Country Doctor by de Balzac, Honore View in context
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