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Libertine vs Salacious - What's the difference?

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Libertine is a related term of salacious.


As adjectives the difference between libertine and salacious

is that libertine is dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals while salacious is promoting sexual desire or lust.

As a noun libertine

is (historical) someone freed from slavery in ancient rome; a freedman or libertine can be one who is freethinking in religious matters.

libertine

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ; see liberal, liberate.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (historical) Someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) libertin

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who is freethinking in religious matters.
  • Someone (especially a man) who takes no notice of moral laws, especially those involving sexual propriety; someone loose in morals; a pleasure-seeker.
  • * 2007 , Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons , tr. Helen Constantine, Penguin 2007, p. 123,
  • So the truth of the matter is that a libertine' in love, if indeed a ' libertine can be in love, becomes from that moment in less of a hurry to enjoy the pleasures of the flesh.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals.
  • salacious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Promoting sexual desire or lust.
  • Lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd.
  • Synonyms

    * ardent, hot, dirty, lubricious

    Derived terms

    * salaciousness