licentious
Etymology
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Etymology
From Latin licentiōsus, from licentia ("license, freedom").
Pronunciation- IPA: /laɪ.ˈsɛn.ʃəs/
licentious
- Lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct; sexually unprincipled.
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC ↗, page 228:
- His eyes trailed over her feline pose on the sofa, finding her limbs adorable while he tried exasperatedly to extract the truth of licentious revelations from them.
- Disregarding accepted rules.
- French: voluptueux, leste, libertin, polisson
- German: hemmungslos, zügellos, unzüchtig (sexually), ausschweifend (loosely)
- Italian: licenzioso, dissoluto, libertino, impudico, lascivo, boccaccesco, scostumato
- Portuguese: licencioso, libertino, devasso, impudico, lascivo, libidinoso
- Russian: безнра́вственный
- Spanish: licencioso, disoluto
- French: licencieux
- German: regellos, willkürlich, unorthodox, ungehörig (societal rules), ungebührlich (societal rules), sittenwidrig (societal rules)
- Italian: licenzioso
- Portuguese: licencioso, atrevido, indisciplinado, insolente
- Russian: во́льный
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