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pruriency

pruriency noun: prurience.

Noun

pruriency (countable and uncountable, plural pruriencies)

  1. prurience
    • the pruriency of curious ears1775, Edmund Burke, Conciliation with America

Forms of pruriency

pluralpruriencies

Questions about pruriency

What does pruriency mean?
Pruriency means prurience.
What part of speech is pruriency?
Pruriency is a noun.
What is the plural of pruriency?
The plural of pruriency is pruriencies.

Words near pruriency in the dictionary

  1. pruriceptor
  2. pruriceptors
  3. prurience
  4. pruriences
  5. pruriencies
  6. pruriency
  7. prurient
  8. pruriently
  9. prurigenic
  10. pruriginous
  11. prurigo

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