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erotism vs prurience

prurience vs erotism

erotism and prurience both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
erotism Yes No No No
prurience Yes No No No
As nouns, prurience is a hyponym of erotism; that is, prurience is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than erotism:
  • erotism: the arousal of feelings of sexual desire
  • prurience: feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
Other hyponyms of erotism include carnality, lasciviousness, lubricity, pruriency.
erotism (noun) prurience (noun)
the arousal of feelings of sexual desire feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
a state of anticipation of sexuality
Difference between erotism and prurience

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