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promiscuity
/ˌpɹɑm.ɪˈskju.ɪ.ti/
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What does promiscuity mean?
noun
- The state or quality of being promiscuous.
- Indiscriminateness in the choice of sexual partners.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (dated, literary) State of being mixed, composed of diverse elements, unsystematic; heterogeneity.
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/ˌpɹɑm.ɪˈskju.ɪ.ti/
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In tropical countries, where there is great promiscuity of life, one is led to expect their almost universal presence.
A taboo on promiscuity had to be created, and for this purpose any current prejudice could be made use of.
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There is, let us say, a certain filthy rookery in Hoxton, dripping with disease and honeycombed with crime and promiscuity.
In particular, she centres this frenzy of hers upon one definite privilege, to wit, the alleged privilege of promiscuity in amour, the modern droit du seigneur.
I do not believe that there was in that genteel Bohemia an intensive culture of chastity, but I do not remember so crude a promiscuity as seems to be practised in the present day.