salacity
4 synonyms for salacity, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — Crude sexual suggestiveness or indecency in something's tone or content.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
Etymology
Formed from salac(ious) + -ity; this in turn goes back to Latin salācitās (“promoting sexual desire or lust”) (the source of -acity), from salāx (“prone to leaping, provocative”), from saliō (“leap, jump, bound”).
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