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Salacious vs Venereal - What's the difference?

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Salacious is a related term of venereal.


As adjectives the difference between salacious and venereal

is that salacious is promoting sexual desire or lust while venereal is sexually transmitted.

salacious

English

Adjective

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

    • Synonyms

    * ardent, hot, dirty, lubricious

    Derived terms

    * salaciousness

    venereal

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • sexually transmitted.
  • of or relating to sexual intercourse, lust, or the genitals.
  • * Milton
    • Into the snare I fell / Of fair, fallacious looks, venereal trains, / Softened with pleasure and voluptuous life.
  • Exciting sexual desire; aphrodisiac.
  • Adapted to the cure of venereal diseases.
    • a venereal medicine
  • (obsolete) of or relating to copper (formerly called Venus by alchemists).

    • Derived terms

    * dermatovenereal * venereal disease * venereally * venerology

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