prurition
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin prurire (“to itch”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
prurition (uncountable)
- itching
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- He scratched imprecisely with his right hand, though insensible of prurition, various points and surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin.