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Lasciviousness is the noun: the quality, or the behaviour, of being lascivious. Writers talk about the lasciviousness of a scene, or accuse someone of lasciviousness. It names the thing itself — the wanting, the tone, the conduct — not the person. Like lascivious, it is formal and usually critical. You will almost never hear it in casual conversation; it lives in essays, reviews, and sometimes in legal or moral language. Though actually, because the word is so heavy, using it about a person can sound more like a charge than a description, which is why careful writers often attach it to a look, a scene, or a style rather than to someone’s whole character.
淫蕩、好色(指這種性質或行為,不是用來叫某個人)
組成lascivious + -ness (the old English ending that turns an adjective into a noun meaning “the quality of…” ).
同家族的字
- lasciviousthe adjective this noun is built from
- lasciviouslythe related adverb
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
lasciviousnessnoun/ləˈsɪvɪ.əsnəs/
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The characteristic or state of being lascivious.
- For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed euill thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, / Thefts, couetouſneſſe, wickedneſſe, deceit, laſciuiouſneſſe, an euill eye, blaſphemie, pride, fooliſhneſſe: / All theſe euill things come from within, and defile the man.
- Diodorus Siculus bears out this, and states that the goat was made a god on account of its genital member and lasciviousness.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。