Prurient vs Promiscuous - What's the difference?
prurient | promiscuous |
Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious anxiety or propensity; lustful.
* 1823 , The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc ,
* 1995 , Brian Parkinson, Ideas and Realities of Emotion ,
* 2010 , Stephen Sartarelli (translator), Love and the Erotic in Art'', (2008, Stefano Zuffi, ''Amore ed erotismo ), John Paul Getty Trust, US,
Arousing or appealing to sexual desire.
* 1825 , The Literary Chronicle for the Year 1825 , London,
* 2005 , Donald Gilbert-SantamarÃa, Writers on the Market: Consuming Literature in Early Seventeenth-century Spain ,
* 2008 , Marcel Danesi, Popular Culture: Introductory Perspectives ,
Curious, especially inappropriately so.
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 prurient and promiscuous
is that prurient is uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious anxiety or propensity; lustful while promiscuous is made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.prurient
English
Adjective
(en adjective)page 781,
- We know that at that period certain indecencies in the dresses, even of those who were considered as the most refined and polished men of the age, were not only tolerated but ostentatiously displayed, and every sort of device that the most prurient mind could think of was had recourse to, to attract attention or excite a smile.
page 124,
- For example, some of the more prudish senders may have averted their attention from the sexual pictures while other more prurient viewers may have intensified their gaze.
page 7,
- It must be removed at once, lest it disturb the young and arouse in adults the most prurient thoughts.
page 156,
- nor is it more prurient or lascivious than many productions to be found in a circulating library.
page 130,
- Much of my discussion in the previous two chapters has focused on the dichotomy in Alemán's novel between the author's stated interest in moral didacticism and the more prurient appeal of the novel's representations of material privation and violent spectacle.
page 204,
- But in contemporary consumerist societies, when the kids are safely in bed, television programs allow viewers to indulge their more prurient interests.
Synonyms
* (uneasy with desire) lustful * (sexually arousing or appealing) titillatingDerived terms
* prurient interestpromiscuous
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.