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promiscuity [ˌprɒmɪˈskjuːɪtɪ] n
1. promiscuous sexual behaviour 2. indiscriminate mingling, mixture, or confusion, as of parts or elements ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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 n → Promiskuität f, → häufiger Partnerwechsel (liter: = confusion) → Wirrwarr m promiscuity [ˌprɒmɪsˈkjuːɪtɪ] n (sexual) → promiscuità promiscuity [ˌprɒmɪsˈkjuːɪtɪ] n (sexual) → promiscuità How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| 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. 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. American promiscuity, goodness knew, had been strange to him, but it was nothing to the queerness of American criticism. |
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