Definition of Salacity

1. Noun. The trait of behaving in an obscene manner.

Exact synonyms: Bawdiness, Lewdness, Obscenity, Salaciousness
Generic synonyms: Indecency
Specialized synonyms: Dirtiness, Smuttiness
Derivative terms: Bawdy, Lewd, Obscene, Obscene, Salacious, Salacious, Salacious, Salacious

Definition of Salacity

1. n. Strong propensity to venery; lust; lecherousness.

Definition of Salacity

1. Noun. The state or quality of being salacious; lewdness, obscenity, bawdiness. ¹

2. Noun. An act which is salacious (lewd, obscene or bawdy). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Salacity

1. lewdness [n -TIES] - See also: lewdness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Salacity

salaam convulsions
salaam spasm
salaamed
salaaming
salaams
salaat
salabilities
salability
salable
salably
salaciously
salaciousness
salaciousnesses
salacities
salacity (current term)
salad
salad-dodger
salad-oil
salad bar
salad bars
salad bowl
salad burnet
salad cream
salad days
salad dodger
salad dodgers
salad dressing
salad dressings
salad fork

Literary usage of Salacity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. On the functional diseases of the renal, urinary and reproductive organs by Donald Campbell Black (1872)
"The salacity of youth is usually sthenic, and when unattended with preternatural irritability of any portion of the generative system, as a rule, ..."

2. The Evolution of Man and His Mind: A History and Discussion of the Evolution by Shobal Vail Clevenger (1902)
"... salacity, and finally a custom is soon established. Pond snails are viviparous and the young are born with shells and start out independently at once. ..."

3. Home-talks by John Humphrey Noyes (1875)
"We see also that salacity, taken by itself, is overwhelmed with ... Here is the way: Credulity and salacity arc balanced and tempered by the love of the ..."

4. The Animal Kingdom: Considered Anatomically, Physically and Philosophically by Emanuel Swedenborg (1912)
"salacity induced by drugs;—excited by scourging and blows;—the stinging of nettles (§18 seq.). From excessive venery come: loss of mind; drying up of the ..."

5. Medical and Surgical Reporter (1852)
"While gestation, the peculiar function of the uterus, is in active operation, that of the ovaries is suspended; consequently, as salacity in the brute ..."

6. The study of medicine by John Mason Good, Samuel Cooper (1829)
"salacity. THE APPETENCY CAPABLE OF RESTRAINT; THE EXCITEMENT CHIEFLY CONFINED TO THE SEXUAL SYSTEM. IN a state of health and civilized society, ..."

7. On the functional diseases of the renal, urinary and reproductive organs by Donald Campbell Black (1872)
"The salacity of youth is usually sthenic, and when unattended with preternatural irritability of any portion of the generative system, as a rule, ..."

8. The Evolution of Man and His Mind: A History and Discussion of the Evolution by Shobal Vail Clevenger (1902)
"... salacity, and finally a custom is soon established. Pond snails are viviparous and the young are born with shells and start out independently at once. ..."

9. Home-talks by John Humphrey Noyes (1875)
"We see also that salacity, taken by itself, is overwhelmed with ... Here is the way: Credulity and salacity arc balanced and tempered by the love of the ..."

10. The Animal Kingdom: Considered Anatomically, Physically and Philosophically by Emanuel Swedenborg (1912)
"salacity induced by drugs;—excited by scourging and blows;—the stinging of nettles (§18 seq.). From excessive venery come: loss of mind; drying up of the ..."

11. Medical and Surgical Reporter (1852)
"While gestation, the peculiar function of the uterus, is in active operation, that of the ovaries is suspended; consequently, as salacity in the brute ..."

12. The study of medicine by John Mason Good, Samuel Cooper (1829)
"salacity. THE APPETENCY CAPABLE OF RESTRAINT; THE EXCITEMENT CHIEFLY CONFINED TO THE SEXUAL SYSTEM. IN a state of health and civilized society, ..."

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