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n. prurience

n. The character or state of being prurient. An itching or longing after something; an eager desire or appetite.

n. A tendency toward, or a habit of, lascivious thought; sensuality.

n. feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness

"Before a fully conscious work of art, one feels something like the mixture of anxiety, detachment, pruriency, and relief that a physically sound person feels when he glimpses an amputee."

amorousness    eroticism    erotism    sexiness    amativeness   

shoddiness    prurience    springe    scrupulosity    immoderation