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Salacity vs Salaciousness - What's the difference?

salacity | salaciousness |

As nouns the difference between salacity and salaciousness

is that salacity is the state or quality of being salacious; lewdness, obscenity, bawdiness while salaciousness is the state or characteristic of being salacious.

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).

    • salaciousness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or characteristic of being salacious.

    • Synonyms

    * bawdiness, indecency, lasciviousness, lewdness