noun
- plural of pruriency; instances of having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters
Usage: formal; often disapproving
Examples
- The critic condemned the novel’s pruriencies as gratuitous.
- Parents were concerned about the pruriencies in the television program.
- The editor removed several pruriencies from the manuscript.
- Literary scholars debated whether the author’s pruriencies served an artistic purpose.
- The film rating reflected its various pruriencies and mature themes.