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Debauchery vs Lascivious - What's the difference?

debauchery | lascivious |

As a noun debauchery

is indulgence in sensual pleasures; scandalous activities involving sex, alcohol, or drugs without inhibition.

As an adjective lascivious is

wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.

debauchery

English

Noun

(debaucheries)
  • Indulgence in sensual pleasures; scandalous activities involving sex, alcohol, or drugs without inhibition.
  • (archaic) Seduction from duty.

    • Synonyms

    * licentiousness

    Related terms

    * debauch * debauchee * debaucher * debaucherous * debauched

    References

    * Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition (1997) * WordNet 3.0 (Princeton University) ;

    lascivious

    English

    (wikipedia lascivious)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.
  • *
  • *:The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.

    • Synonyms

    * wanton, lewd, lustful

    See also

    * lecherous