promiscuity
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French promiscuité
Noun
promiscuity (plural promiscuities)
- The state or quality of being promiscuous.
- Indiscriminateness in the choice of sexual partners.
- 1963 Albert Ellis, The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Manhunting-p.129
- Experimental variety or what Rey Anthony has called selective promiscuity - is the cornerstone of sane sexual choice.
- 1975 March 17, Marian Christy, Suzy Chaffee, A Liberated Beauty, The Lebanon Daily News
- I'm not advocating sexual promiscuity but I think it's possible for a woman to have many kinds of sexual relationships with many men and that shouldn't affect the status of the marriage
- 1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 24:
- Seeing these happy pairings, I thought of the cheerful promiscuity to come. I felt a growing sexual need, not only for the young women brushing against me in the crowded street...
- 1998 May 14, James Dobson, Self-worth based on beauty can wither as women age, The Woodfield County Journal
- As she becomes more conscious of her flirtatious power, she is sometimes urged toward promiscuity.
- (dated, literary) State of being mixed, composed of diverse elements, unsystematic; heterogeneity.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 34
- 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. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 34
- 1963 Albert Ellis, The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Manhunting-p.129
Translations
state or quality of being promiscuous
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