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Amorousness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The state or quality of being amorous.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality of being amorous, or inclined to sexual love; lovingness.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The quality of being amorous, or inclined to love or to sexual pleasure; fondness; lovingness.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a feeling of love or fondness

n. the arousal of feelings of sexual desire

Word Usage

"It is only afterwards that, surviving many minor gods of war, he becomes a leader of hosts, a sort of divine knight and patron of knighthood; and, through the old intricate connexion of love and war, and that amorousness which is the universally conceded privilege of the soldier's life, he comes to be very near Aphrodite, -- the paramour of the goddess of physical beauty."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

love

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

lovingness

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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