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Licentiousness vs Lustihead - What's the difference?

licentiousness | lustihead |

As nouns the difference between licentiousness and lustihead

is that licentiousness is the property of being licentious while lustihead is lustfulness, delight; licentiousness.

licentiousness

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The property of being licentious.
  • *{{quote-book
    • , 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

    lustihead

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Lustfulness, delight; licentiousness.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.xi:
  • *:in those Tapets weren fashioned / Many faire pourtraicts, and many a faire feate, / And all of loue, and all of lusty-hed [...].
  • * 1909, Francis Thompson,
  • *:In the rash lustihead of my young powers, / I shook the pillaring hours / And pulled my life upon me; grimed with smears, / I stand amid the dust o’ the mounded years— / My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap.