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2 senses: 1. unusually or morbidly interested in sexual thoughts or practices 2. exciting or encouraging lustfulness; erotic.... Click for more definitions.
prurient, adj. & n. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary
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Prolagus commented on the word prurient. TV is not vulgar and prurient and dumb because the people who compose the audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests.
Prurient interest is defined within statute as follows: Obscene means that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest in sex or describes in a patently offensive manner sexual conduct and which, taken as a whole does not have serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
Jan 1, 2021 · prurient. (adj.). 1630s, "itching," later, and now exclusively, "having an itching desire for something" (1650s), especially "lascivious, inclined to lewd thoughts," (1746), from Latin prurientem (nominative pruriens), present participle of prurire "to itch; to long for, be wanton," which is perhaps related to pruna "glowing coals" (from PIE root *preus-"to freeze; to burn;" see freeze (v.)).
The meaning of PRURIENCE is the quality or state of being prurient.
