promiscuity

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promiscuity

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From French promiscuité.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌpɹɒm.ɪˈskju.ɪ.ti/, /ˌpɹəʊ.mɪˈskju.ɪ.ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌpɹɑm.ɪˈskju.ɪ.ti/, /ˌpɹoʊ.mɪˈskju.ɪ.ti/

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promiscuity (countable and uncountable, plural promiscuities)

1. The state or quality of being promiscuous.
2. Indiscriminateness in the choice of sexual partners.
   • 1963, Albert Ellis, The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Manhunting, page 129:

     Experimental variety or what Rey Anthony has called selective promiscuity - is the cornerstone of sane sexual choice.

   • 1975 March 17, Marian Christy, “Suzy Chaffee, A Liberated Beauty”, in The Lebanon Daily News:

     I'm not advocating sexual promiscuity but I think it's possible for a woman to have many kinds of sexual relationships with many men and that shouldn't affect the status of the marriage

   • 1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 24:

     Seeing these happy pairings, I thought of the cheerful promiscuity to come. I felt a growing sexual need, not only for the young women brushing against me in the crowded street...

   • 1998 May 14, James Dobson, “Self-worth based on beauty can wither as women age”, in The Woodfield County Journal:

     As she becomes more conscious of her flirtatious power, she is sometimes urged toward promiscuity.

3. (dated, literary) State of being mixed, composed of diverse elements, unsystematic; heterogeneity.
   • 1919, W Somerset Maugham, “chapter 34”, in The Moon and Sixpence, : Grosset & Dunlap Publishers , →OCLC:

     While I dressed—for Stroeve wished me to go at once with him to the hospital—he told me that he had arranged for his wife to have a private room, so that she might at least be spared the sordid promiscuity of a ward.