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Licentious vs Indecent - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between licentious and indecent

is that licentious is lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct while indecent is offensive to good taste.

licentious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct.
  • Disregarding accepted rules.

    • Derived terms

    * licentiousness

    See also

    * incontinent

    indecent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • offensive to good taste
  • not in keeping with conventional moral values; improper, immodest or unseemly

    • Synonyms

    * (offensive to good taste ): distasteful, in bad taste, in poor taste, offensive * (not in keeping with conventional moral values ): immodest, immoral, improper, unseemly

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