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The quality or state of being prurient.

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  1. n. The quality or state of being prurient.
  2. n. feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
  3. The quality or state of being prurient. The pruriency of curious ears. Burke. There is a prurience in the speech of some. Cowper.
  4. n feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness