promiscuity

promiscuity
n
1. looseness, laxness, libertinism, licentiousness; wantonness, wildness, abandon, wild abandon, lack of restraint, fastness, Inf. swinging; sluttishness, slatternliness, whorishness, whoredom, harlotry, Inf. sleeping around; disreputableness, dishonorableness, Sl. trashiness, Sl. cheapness; lustfulness, lasciviousness, carnality, sensuality, Scot. cadginess, Archaic. lickerishness; lewdness, lecherousness, lubricity, salaciousness, prurience, concupiscence, goatishness, animalism, Sl. horniness; unchasteness, unchastity, impurity, impureness, uncleanliness; immorality, moral turpitude, unvirtuousness, unscru-pulousness, indecency, immodesty, shamelessness; dissoluteness, debauchery, rakishness, dissipation, profligacy, profligateness, depravity, corruptness.
2. hodgepodge, mishmash, motley, jumble, scramble, menagerie, gallimaufry, farrago.

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