Promiscuous vs Adultery - What's the difference?
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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.
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 an adjective promiscuous
is made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.As a noun adultery is
sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse.promiscuous
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.
Synonyms
* See also * See also * (made up of various disparate elements) motleyDerived terms
* promiscuity * promiscuousnessExternal links
* * *adultery
English
(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.