promiscuity

promiscuity
Synonyms and related words:
casualness, chambering, crudity of intellect, derangement, disarrangement, disarray, disarticulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertedness, disharmony, dishevelment, disintegration, disjunction, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disproportion, disruption, disturbance, easy virtue, entropy, haphazardness, imprudence, incoherence, indiscreetness, indiscretion, indiscriminateness, indiscrimination, inharmonious harmony, insensibility, insensitivity, irregularity, lack of feeling, lack of refinement, laxity, lightness, loose morals, looseness, most admired disorder, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, perturbation, promiscuousness, randomness, sleeping around, swinging, syncretism, tactlessness, turbulence, uncriticalness, undiscriminatingness, undiscriminativeness, unfastidiousness, unmeticulousness, unparticularness, unpreciseness, unselectiveness, unsymmetry, untactfulness, ununiformity, upset, wantonness, waywardness, whorishness

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  • Promiscuity — Pro mis*cu i*ty, n. Promiscuousness; confusion. H. Spencer. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • promiscuity — 1849, indiscriminate mixture, from Fr. promiscuité (1752), from L. promiscuus (see PROMISCUOUS (Cf. promiscuous)) + Fr. ité (see ITY (Cf. ity)). Sexual sense is from 1865 …   Etymology dictionary

  • promiscuity — [präm΄i skyo͞o′ə tē, prō΄miskyo͞o′ə tē] n. pl. promiscuities state, quality, or instance of being promiscuous, esp. in sexual relations …   English World dictionary

  • Promiscuity — Promiscuous redirects here. For other uses, see Promiscuous (disambiguation). In humans, promiscuity refers to less discriminating casual sex with many sexual partners.[1] The term carries a moral or religious judgement and is viewed in the… …   Wikipedia

  • promiscuity — n. sexual promiscuity * * * [ˌprɒmɪ skjuːɪtɪ] sexual promiscuity …   Combinatory dictionary

  • promiscuity — noun the promiscuity associated with the sixties and seventies Syn: licentiousness, wantonness, immorality; informal sleeping around, sluttishness, whorishness; dated looseness Ant: chastity, virtue …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • promiscuity — promiscuous ► ADJECTIVE 1) having or characterized by many transient sexual relationships. 2) indiscriminate or casual: a promiscuous mixing of styles. DERIVATIVES promiscuity noun promiscuously adverb. ORIGIN Latin promiscuus indiscriminate …   English terms dictionary

  • Promiscuity (disambiguation) — Promiscuity may refer to:*Promiscuity, the practice of making relatively casual and indiscriminate choices, most commonly applied to sexual behaviour and referred to as Sexual promiscuity * Promiscuity, a song by Manu Chao from his 2000 album …   Wikipedia

  • promiscuity — noun (plural ties) Date: circa 1849 1. miscellaneous mingling or selection of persons or things ; indiscriminateness 2. promiscuous sexual behavior …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • promiscuity — /prom i skyooh i tee, proh mi /, n., pl. promiscuities for 3. 1. the state of being promiscuous. 2. promiscuous sexual behavior. 3. an indiscriminate mixture. [1840 50; PROMISCU(OUS) + ITY; cf. F promiscuité] * * * …   Universalium

  • promiscuity — noun The state or quality of being promiscuous …   Wiktionary

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