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Salacious vs Salacity - What's the difference?

salacious | salacity |

As an adjective salacious

is promoting sexual desire or lust.

As a noun salacity is

the state or quality of being salacious; lewdness, obscenity, bawdiness.

salacious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Promoting sexual desire or lust.
  • Lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd.

    • Synonyms

    * ardent, hot, dirty, lubricious

    Derived terms

    * salaciousness

    salacity

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The state or quality of being salacious; lewdness, obscenity, bawdiness.
  • *, II.ii.2:
  • *:Aristotle gives instance in sparrows, which are parum vivaces ob salacitatem , short-lived because of their salacity , which is very frequent […].
  • (countable) An act which is salacious, (lewd, obscene or bawdy).