pruriency
- n feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
- The old publicity campaigner guessed, correctly, that Legion disapproval would whet public pruriency and boost attendance as nothing in the juiceless film itself could.
- An attack on impotent pruriency.
- The greed for too much has led to the lack of necessities; the pruriency of pleasure, the gnawing of torture, the mania for liberty, the increase of shackles.