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salacity

The English word “salacity” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The state or quality of being salacious; lewdness, obscenity, bawdiness.
  2. An act that is salacious, (lewd, obscene or bawdy); a salacious image or piece of writing.

Etymology

From salac(ious) + -ity, from Latin salācitās (“promoting sexual desire or lust”) (whence -acity), from salāx (“prone to leaping, provocative”), from saliō (“leap, jump, bound”).

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