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Licentiousness vs Indecency - What's the difference?

licentiousness | indecency |

As nouns the difference between licentiousness and indecency

is that licentiousness is the property of being licentious while indecency is lack of decency; the property or degree of being indecent.

licentiousness

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The property of being licentious.
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    • , year= 1648 , year_published= , author= , by= , title= Miscellanea Spiritualia , url= http://ia700305.us.archive.org/3/items/miscellaneaspiri00mont/miscellaneaspiri00mont_bw.pdf , original= , chapter= Of Scurrility , section = 2 , isbn= , edition= , publisher= W. Lee, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell , location= London , editor= , volume= , page= 144 , passage= ... and well considered, me thinks this is one of the most censurable parts of this licentiousnesse , in regard it laboureth to taint the whole body of conversation, as it corrupteth the nature of words, which are the Publique Faith , whereupon all innocent discourse must needs trust it selfe, so that this perversion seemeth a publick impediment to the commerce of all vertuous communication ... }}

    Synonyms

    * debauchery

    indecency

    English

    Noun

    (indecencies)
  • lack of decency; the property or degree of being indecent
  • something showing lack of decency; something such as a word that is indecent