promiscuity

noun
/ˌpɹɒm.ɪˈskju.ɪ.ti/UK/ˌpɹɑm.ɪˈskju.ɪ.ti/US

Etymology

From French promiscuité.

  1. derived from promiscuité

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being promiscuous.

  2. Indiscriminateness in the choice of sexual partners.

    • Experimental variety or what Rey Anthony has called selective promiscuity - is the cornerstone of sane sexual choice.
    • I'm not advocating sexual promiscuity but I think it's possible for a woman to have many kinds of sexual relationships with many men and that shouldn't affect the status of the marriage
    • Seeing these happy pairings, I thought of the cheerful promiscuity to come. I felt a growing sexual need, not only for the young women brushing against me in the crowded street...
  3. State of being mixed, composed of diverse elements, unsystematic

    State of being mixed, composed of diverse elements, unsystematic; heterogeneity.

    • While I dressed—for Stroeve wished me to go at once with him to the hospital—he told me that he had arranged for his wife to have a private room, so that she might at least be spared the sordid promiscuity of a ward.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for promiscuity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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