"licentiousness" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: licentiousnesses [plural]
Etymology: Etymology tree English licentious Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English licentiousness From licentious + -ness. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|licentious|-ness|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree English licentious Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English licentiousness [Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*-ōną", "lang" : "gem-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*-inōną", "lang" : "gem-pro" }, { "id" : "-ness", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "verbal", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "verbal", "children" : [ ], "status" : "redlink", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-dyé-", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*-atjaną", "lang" : "gem-pro" }, { "id" : "nominative", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "action noun", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-tus", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*-þuz", "lang" : "gem-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*-assuz", "lang" : "gem-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*-inassuz", "lang" : "gem-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-West Germanic", "term" : "*-nassī", "lang" : "gmw-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Old English", "term" : "-nes", "lang" : "ang" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "-nesse", "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "-ness", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "licentiousness", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="licentiousness"> From licentious + -ness. Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} licentiousness (usually uncountable, plural licentiousnesses)
  1. The property of being licentious. Tags: uncountable, usually Related terms: debauchery Translations (property of being licentious): բղջախոհություն (bġǰaxohutʻyun) (Armenian), wulpsheid (Dutch), wellustigheid (Dutch), riettaus (Finnish), irstaus (Finnish), siveettömyys (Finnish), hillittömyys (Finnish), licenciosité (French), licence [feminine] (French), Zügellosigkeit [feminine] (German), Freizügigkeit [feminine] (German), Unzüchtigkeit (english: sexually) [feminine] (German), פְּרִיצוּת (pritzút) (Hebrew), הוֹלֵלוּת (holelút) [feminine] (Hebrew), ainriantacht [feminine] (Irish), díolúnas [masculine] (Irish), drabhlás [masculine] (Irish), licenziosità (Italian), 猥褻 (waisetsu) (alt: わいせつ) (Japanese), licentiositas (Latin), licențiozitate [feminine] (Romanian), licenciosidad (Spanish), libertinaje [feminine] (Spanish), puterío [masculine] (Spanish)

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  "etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nEnglish licentious\nProto-Germanic *-in-\nProto-Indo-European *-h₂\nProto-Indo-European *-éh₂\nProto-Indo-European *-yéti\nProto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti\nProto-Indo-European *-h₂ti\nProto-Germanic *-ōną\nProto-Germanic *-inōną\nProto-Indo-European *-dyé-\nProto-Germanic *-atjaną\nProto-Indo-European *-tus\nProto-Germanic *-þuz\nProto-Germanic *-assuz\nProto-Germanic *-inassuz\nProto-West Germanic *-nassī\nOld English -nes\nMiddle English -nesse\nEnglish -ness\nEnglish licentiousness\nFrom licentious + -ness.",
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      "form": "licentiousnesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {
        "1": "-",
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      "expansion": "licentiousness (usually uncountable, plural licentiousnesses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "debauchery"
    }
  ],
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        "English entries with etymology texts",
        "English entries with etymology trees",
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        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages using etymon with no ID",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
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        "Pages with etymology trees",
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        "Terms with Armenian translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Hebrew translations",
        "Terms with Irish translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Latin translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
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          "bold_text_offsets": [
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              84,
              99
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          ],
          "ref": "1648, Walter Montagu, “Of Scurrility”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia, London: W. Lee, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell, section 2, page 144:",
          "text": "... and well considered, me thinks this is one of the most censurable parts of this licentiousnesse, in regard it laboureth to taint the whole body of conversation, as it corrupteth the nature of words, which are the Publique Faith, whereupon all innocent discourse must needs trust it selfe, so that this perversion seemeth a publick impediment to the commerce of all vertuous communication ...",
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          "ref": "1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page x:",
          "text": "Early mentality, in initiating phallic worship, was never in any way guilty of licentiousness or obscenity.",
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        }
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        "The property of being licentious."
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    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "lang_code": "hy",
      "roman": "bġǰaxohutʻyun",
      "sense": "property of being licentious",
      "word": "բղջախոհություն"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "sense": "property of being licentious",
      "word": "wulpsheid"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "sense": "property of being licentious",
      "word": "wellustigheid"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "property of being licentious",
      "word": "riettaus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "property of being licentious",
      "word": "irstaus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "property of being licentious",
      "word": "siveettömyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "property of being licentious",
      "word": "hillittömyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "property of being licentious",
      "word": "licenciosité"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "property of being licentious",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "licence"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "property of being licentious",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Zügellosigkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "property of being licentious",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Freizügigkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "sexually",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "property of being licentious",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "translation": "sexually",
      "word": "Unzüchtigkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "lang_code": "he",
      "roman": "pritzút",
      "sense": "property of being licentious",
      "word": "פְּרִיצוּת"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "lang_code": "he",
      "roman": "holelút",
      "sense": "property of being licentious",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "הוֹלֵלוּת"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "lang_code": "ga",
      "sense": "property of being licentious",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "ainriantacht"
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    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "lang_code": "ga",
      "sense": "property of being licentious",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "díolúnas"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "lang_code": "ga",
      "sense": "property of being licentious",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "drabhlás"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "property of being licentious",
      "word": "licenziosità"
    },
    {
      "alt": "わいせつ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "lang_code": "ja",
      "roman": "waisetsu",
      "sense": "property of being licentious",
      "word": "猥褻"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "lang_code": "la",
      "sense": "property of being licentious",
      "word": "licentiositas"
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    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "sense": "property of being licentious",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "licențiozitate"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "property of being licentious",
      "word": "licenciosidad"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "property of being licentious",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "libertinaje"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "property of being licentious",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "puterío"
    }
  ],
  "word": "licentiousness"
}

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