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Adulterous vs Adulterousness - What's the difference?

adulterous | adulterousness |

As an adjective adulterous

is of, or characterized by adultery.

As a noun adulterousness is

a state of being adulterous.

adulterous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, or characterized by adultery.
  • adulterousness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A state of being adulterous.
  • * 1988 , Richard Brown, James Joyce and Sexuality (page 21)
  • It is, however, apparent that Joyce made this adulterousness or pseudo-adulterousness a persistent and structurally significant element in his novel
  • * 2006 , Laura Stark, The Magical Self (page 401)
  • And once she had to sit one Sunday in the stocks in Nurmo church for the entire church service, on account of her terrible adulterousness , and the whole time she winked flirtatiously at the men.
  • * 2013 , Christopher Nadon, Enlightenment and Secularism (page 206)
  • In the ensuing discussion he makes two extraordinary arguments, the first linking the chastity of Americans with their political freedom and the adulterousness of Europeans with their political disorders