promiscuities
promiscuities is the plural of promiscuity.
Meaning of promiscuity
Noun
promiscuity (countable and uncountable, plural promiscuities)
- The state or quality of being promiscuous.
- Indiscriminateness in the choice of sexual partners.
- Experimental variety or what Rey Anthony has called selective promiscuity - is the cornerstone of sane sexual choice.1963, Albert Ellis, The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Manhunting, page 129
- State of being mixed, composed of diverse elements, unsystematic; heterogeneity.
- While I dressed—for Stroeve wished me to go at once with him to the hospital—he told me that he had arranged for his wife to have a private room, so that she might at least be spared the sordid promiscuity of a ward.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 34”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC
Questions about promiscuities
- What is promiscuities the plural of?
- Promiscuities is the plural of promiscuity.
Words near promiscuities in the dictionary
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