What's the difference between prurience and pruriency?
Prurience
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Pruriency
Example Sentences:
(1) Perhaps more interesting than the drop-off in erotic activity is the gleeful way that it is reported; a mixture of prurience and self-laceration driving these frantic swan songs for our sexual lives.
(2) Though it may seem far-fetched this sunny Saturday morning, future historians could judge that the wives and girlfriends, so long the objects of prurience and mockery, were indirectly the catalyst of a significant realignment.
(3) Patten rejected calls for the BBC to publish individual stars' salaries, saying that would risk encouraging "prurience".
(4) Suicide attracts speculation and prurience like flies to rotting food.
(5) "There is now a disproportionate amount of meretricious material aimed at appealing to public prurience, most of which revolves around the philandering of celebrities," he argues.
(6) The adultery "may satisfy public prurience," he remarked, "but that is not a sufficient justification for interfering in the privacy rights of those involved."
(7) Where his previous porn film, as it were, had an undertow of sniggering prurience (to the extent that he appeared as an extra in a gay porno entitled Take A Peak), Twilight Of The Porn Stars is sombre and sympathetic.
(8) They are now pleading for a privacy law, supposedly to mark out that elusive divide between what is in the public's interest and what is of interest to the public, between accountability and prurience.
(9) Other peoples' salaries, at the best of times, are furtively conserved secrets, so it was with delicious prurience that we greeted an entire line-up of leaks which, within days, had been sorted into a hierarchy that found Mr Ross at the top of the heap.
(10) For all that it is strikingly nasty, The Fall is still subtle enough – sometimes, only remembering this or that bit of imagery afterwards, I’ve found myself eagerly complicit in its fevered prurience – to provide wriggle room for those who would defend it.
(11) Using the replies to a sexual attitude questionnaire developed by Eysenck given by 135 males (50 alcoholics, 50 matched normals and 35 sex offenders), item and factor analysis led to the composition of nine short scales measuring sexual satisfaction, heterosexual nervousness, sexual curiosity, tension and hostility, pruriency, sexual repression, heterosexual distaste and sexual promiscuity.
(12) There is now a disproportionate amount of meretricious material aimed at appealing to public prurience, most of which revolves around the philandering of celebrities.
(13) Photograph: Courtesy of Gay Talese The Voyeur’s Motel quotes extensively from Foos’s compulsive observations, but Talese is at pains to present his memoir as much as a work of sociology as one of prurience.
(14) By coincidence the Sunday Times’ grisly annual ritual of materialistic prurience – the Rich List 2016 – was published just as the shadow finally fell across those low-paid BHS workers’ jobs and pensions.
(15) Which is funny when you think about the fact that he's made his name and fortune out of the nation's collective prurience.
(16) But if red-top values are the price we pay for an open society, I would rather that – with all the attendant controversy and prurience – over the closed minds bred by a less free press.
(17) Is he doing so to cater to our prurience, as when Huppert visits the peep show in The Piano Teacher and sniffs a semen-caked tissue she picks from a bin while watching a gross, grunting video of copulation?
(18) "If red-top values are the price we pay for an open society," Lebedev said, "then I would rather that, with all the attendant controversy and prurience, over the closed minds bred by a less free press."
(19) Dughan thought the belief exoneration of the strange prurience that endlessly turned on monoliths rutting miles down.
(20) Benignly billed as a “memoir”, it leaves a sense of grubby prurience, of things one would wish to but can never un-know and a bitter aftertaste.
Pruriency
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being prurient.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perhaps more interesting than the drop-off in erotic activity is the gleeful way that it is reported; a mixture of prurience and self-laceration driving these frantic swan songs for our sexual lives.
(2) Though it may seem far-fetched this sunny Saturday morning, future historians could judge that the wives and girlfriends, so long the objects of prurience and mockery, were indirectly the catalyst of a significant realignment.
(3) Patten rejected calls for the BBC to publish individual stars' salaries, saying that would risk encouraging "prurience".
(4) Suicide attracts speculation and prurience like flies to rotting food.
(5) "There is now a disproportionate amount of meretricious material aimed at appealing to public prurience, most of which revolves around the philandering of celebrities," he argues.
(6) The adultery "may satisfy public prurience," he remarked, "but that is not a sufficient justification for interfering in the privacy rights of those involved."
(7) Where his previous porn film, as it were, had an undertow of sniggering prurience (to the extent that he appeared as an extra in a gay porno entitled Take A Peak), Twilight Of The Porn Stars is sombre and sympathetic.
(8) They are now pleading for a privacy law, supposedly to mark out that elusive divide between what is in the public's interest and what is of interest to the public, between accountability and prurience.
(9) Other peoples' salaries, at the best of times, are furtively conserved secrets, so it was with delicious prurience that we greeted an entire line-up of leaks which, within days, had been sorted into a hierarchy that found Mr Ross at the top of the heap.
(10) For all that it is strikingly nasty, The Fall is still subtle enough – sometimes, only remembering this or that bit of imagery afterwards, I’ve found myself eagerly complicit in its fevered prurience – to provide wriggle room for those who would defend it.
(11) Using the replies to a sexual attitude questionnaire developed by Eysenck given by 135 males (50 alcoholics, 50 matched normals and 35 sex offenders), item and factor analysis led to the composition of nine short scales measuring sexual satisfaction, heterosexual nervousness, sexual curiosity, tension and hostility, pruriency, sexual repression, heterosexual distaste and sexual promiscuity.
(12) There is now a disproportionate amount of meretricious material aimed at appealing to public prurience, most of which revolves around the philandering of celebrities.
(13) Photograph: Courtesy of Gay Talese The Voyeur’s Motel quotes extensively from Foos’s compulsive observations, but Talese is at pains to present his memoir as much as a work of sociology as one of prurience.
(14) By coincidence the Sunday Times’ grisly annual ritual of materialistic prurience – the Rich List 2016 – was published just as the shadow finally fell across those low-paid BHS workers’ jobs and pensions.
(15) Which is funny when you think about the fact that he's made his name and fortune out of the nation's collective prurience.
(16) But if red-top values are the price we pay for an open society, I would rather that – with all the attendant controversy and prurience – over the closed minds bred by a less free press.
(17) Is he doing so to cater to our prurience, as when Huppert visits the peep show in The Piano Teacher and sniffs a semen-caked tissue she picks from a bin while watching a gross, grunting video of copulation?
(18) "If red-top values are the price we pay for an open society," Lebedev said, "then I would rather that, with all the attendant controversy and prurience, over the closed minds bred by a less free press."
(19) Dughan thought the belief exoneration of the strange prurience that endlessly turned on monoliths rutting miles down.
(20) Benignly billed as a “memoir”, it leaves a sense of grubby prurience, of things one would wish to but can never un-know and a bitter aftertaste.