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licentious

adj
/laɪˈsɛn.ʃəs/

Etymology

From Latin licentiōsus, from licentia (“license, freedom”).

  1. derived from licentiōsus

Definitions

  1. Lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct

    Lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct; sexually unprincipled.

    • 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.

  2. Disregarding accepted rules.

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Derived

licentiously, licentiousness, non-licentious, nonlicentious, overlicentious, unlicentious

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at licentious. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01licentious02societal03customs04goods05sold06salary07professionalism08professional09prostitute

A definitional loop anchored at licentious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at licentious

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA