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promiscuities

promiscuities is the plural of promiscuity.

Meaning of promiscuity

Noun

promiscuity (countable and uncountable, plural promiscuities)

  1. The state or quality of being promiscuous.
  2. 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
  3. (dated, literary) 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

  1. prominins
  2. proministry
  3. prominority
  4. promis'd
  5. promisable
  6. promiscuities
  7. promiscuity
  8. promiscuous
  9. promiscuously
  10. promiscuousness
  11. promise

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