Prurient vs Venereal - What's the difference?
prurient | venereal | Related terms |
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.
sexually transmitted.
of or relating to sexual intercourse, lust, or the genitals.
* Milton
Exciting sexual desire; aphrodisiac.
Adapted to the cure of venereal diseases.
(obsolete) of or relating to copper (formerly called Venus by alchemists).
Prurient is a related term of venereal.
As adjectives the difference between prurient and venereal
is that prurient is uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious anxiety or propensity; lustful while venereal is sexually transmitted.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 interestvenereal
English
Adjective
(-)- Into the snare I fell / Of fair, fallacious looks, venereal trains, / Softened with pleasure and voluptuous life.
- a venereal medicine