LEWDNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The trait of behaving in an obscene manner

Synonyms:

bawdiness; lewdness; obscenity; salaciousness; salacity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("lewdness" is a kind of...):

indecency (the quality of being indecent)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lewdness"):

dirtiness; smuttiness (obscenity in speech or writing)

Derivation:

lewd (suggestive of or tending to moral looseness)