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fleshliness

fleshliness noun: indulgence in concerns of the flesh; bodily appetites.

Noun

fleshliness (uncountable)

  1. Indulgence in concerns of the flesh; bodily appetites.
    • when strong passion, or weake fleshlinesse / Would from the right way seeke to draw him wide, / He would through temperance and stedfastnesse, / Teach him the weake to strengthen [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • The more recent pictures of the painter Gérôme unite all these attributes in a singular degree; above all, the fleshliness and materialism which make his studies of the nude, in my judgment, altogether inadmissible into the rank of the fine arts.1871, John Ruskin, Lectures on Landscape, Lecture 2
    Synonyms:
    carnality

Synonyms of fleshliness

Origin of fleshliness

From fleshly + -ness.

Questions about fleshliness

What does fleshliness mean?
Fleshliness means indulgence in concerns of the flesh; bodily appetites.
What part of speech is fleshliness?
Fleshliness is a noun.

Words near fleshliness in the dictionary

  1. fleshlight
  2. fleshlights
  3. fleshlihood
  4. fleshlike
  5. fleshlily
  6. fleshliness
  7. fleshling
  8. fleshlings
  9. fleshloaf
  10. fleshloaves
  11. fleshly

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