Promiscuity vs Adultery - What's the difference?
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The state or quality of being promiscuous.
# Indiscriminateness in the choice of sexual partners.
# (dated, literary) State of being mixed, composed of diverse elements, unsystematic; heterogeneity.
#* 1919 ,
Sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse.
(Bible) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.
(Bible) Faithlessness in religion.
(obsolete) The fine and penalty formerly imposed for the offence of adultery.
(ecclesiastical) The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
(obsolete) adulteration; corruption
(obsolete) injury; degradation; ruin
* Ben Jonson
As nouns the difference between promiscuity and adultery
is that promiscuity is the state or quality of being promiscuous while adultery is sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse.promiscuity
English
Noun
(promiscuities)- While I dressed—for Stroeve wished me to go at once with him to the hospital—he told me that he had arranged for his wife to have a private room, so that she might at least be spared the sordid promiscuity of a ward.
adultery
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(wikipedia adultery)Alternative forms
* advowtry (obsolete)Noun
(adulteries)- She engaged in adultery because her spouse has a low libido, while hers is very high.
- And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. (King James Version)
- (Ben Jonson)
- You might wrest the caduceus out of my hand to the adultery and spoil of nature.