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lechery noun [ ˈlɛtʃ(ə)ri ]

• excessive or offensive sexual desire; lustfulness.
• "the vice of lechery"
Similar: lust, lustfulness, licentiousness, lasciviousness, lewdness, salaciousness, libertinism, libidinousness, debauchery, dissoluteness, wantonness, intemperance, dissipation, degeneracy, depravity, impurity, unchastity, immorality, looseness, immodesty, promiscuity, carnality, womanizing, rakishness, sensuality, sensualness, sexual desire, desire, sexual appetite, libido, randiness, horniness, raunchiness, the hots, leching, concupiscence, lubricity, salacity,
Opposite: chastity,
Origin: Middle English: from Old French lecherie, from lecheor (see lecher).


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