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sexiness vs prurience

prurience vs sexiness

sexiness and prurience both are nouns.

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

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