Libidinous vs Promiscuous - What's the difference?
libidinous | promiscuous | Related terms |
Having lustful desires; characterized by lewdness; sensual; lascivious.
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Made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.
* 1667 , , Book 1, ll. 379-80
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Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.
indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners.
(networking) The mode in which a gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.
As adjectives the difference between libidinous and promiscuous
is that libidinous is having lustful desires; characterized by lewdness; sensual; lascivious while promiscuous is made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.libidinous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It is observed, that the red haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest, whom yet they much exceed in strength and activity.
Synonyms
* (having lustful desires) hot to trot, lascivious, lewd, licentious, lustful, wantonpromiscuous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Came singly where he stood on the bare strand, / While the promiscuous croud stood yet aloof.
- they had both been educated on plans at once narrow and promiscuous , first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor uncle and guardian trying in this way to remedy the disadvantages of their orphaned condition.
