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Lascivious vs Amativeness - What's the difference?

lascivious | amativeness |

As an adjective lascivious

is wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.

As a noun amativeness is

(phrenology) the state or quality of being amative; propensity to love or sexual feelings.

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

    amativeness

    English

    (wikipedia amativeness)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (phrenology) The state or quality of being amative; propensity to love or sexual feelings.
  • *2012 , Catherine Peters, ‘Court in the Act’, Literary Review , issue 399:
  • *:Combe felt her bumps and pronounced that she had an unusually large cerebellum, the seat of Amativeness .