- lewdness
- I(Roget's IV) n.Syn. indecency, unchastity, incontinence, fleshliness, vulgarity, lechery, wantonness, lubricity, lasciviousness, aphrodisia, bodily appetite, libidinousness, sensuality, licentiousness, voluptuousness, lecherousness, profligacy, dissoluteness, obscenity, salacity, scurrility, coarseness, carnal passion, grossness, boorishness, sensuous deSire, vileness, salaciousness, pornography, fleshly lust, depravity, brutishness, lustfulness, carnality, ruttishness, pederasty, nymphomania, pruriency, prurience, incontinency, corruptness, satyriasis, corruption, raunchiness, unnatural deSires, dirtiness, ribaldry, incest, indelicacy, incestuousness, concupiscence, eroticism, sadism, erotism, smut, smuttiness, evil, evilness, evil-mindedness, impurity, debauchery; see also evil 1 .Ant. modesty*, decency, continency.II(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun The quality or state of being obscene: bawdiness, coarseness, dirtiness, filthiness, foulness, grossness, obscenity, profaneness, profanity, scurrility, scurrilousness, smuttiness, vulgarity, vulgarness. Slang: raunch, raunchiness. See DECENT.
English dictionary for students. 2013.