noun The quality of being amorous, or inclined to love or to sexual pleasure; fondness; lovingness.
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noun The quality of being amorous, or inclined to sexual love; lovingness.
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noun The state or quality of being amorous.
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noun a feeling of love or fondness
noun the arousal of feelings of sexual desire
Etymologies
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amorous + -ness
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Examples
It is only afterwards that, surviving many minor gods of war, he becomes a leader of hosts, a sort of divine knight and patron of knighthood; and, through the old intricate connexion of love and war, and that amorousness which is the universally conceded privilege of the soldier's life, he comes to be very near Aphrodite, -- the paramour of the goddess of physical beauty.
Dr. Mitchell-Smith argues that rather than considering the works of this period as representing conflicts between masculine and feminine identities, we can read these texts as expressions of the balance between two extremes of masculine behavior—courtly amorousness on one end and knightly violence on the other.
Dr. Mitchell-Smith argues that rather than considering the works of this period as representing conflicts between masculine and feminine identities, we can read these texts as expressions of the balance between two extremes of masculine behavior—courtly amorousness on one end and knightly violence on the other.
Dr. Mitchell-Smith argues that rather than considering the works of this period as representing conflicts between masculine and feminine identities, we can read these texts as expressions of the balance between two extremes of masculine behavior—courtly amorousness on one end and knightly violence on the other.
And at the very same time he represented physical as well as mental attributes which were agreeable to her — amorousness without the courage at the time, anyhow, to annoy her too much; reverence which yet included her as a very human being; a mental and physical animation which quite matched and companioned her own.
This word is just wrong. I do not love it. I cannot love it. I cannot even pretend to be fond of it. There must be a more elegantly written term for this.
asativum commented on the word amorousness
This word is just wrong. I do not love it. I cannot love it. I cannot even pretend to be fond of it. There must be a more elegantly written term for this.
October 1, 2008
bilby commented on the word amorousness
Amorousal?
October 1, 2008
asativum commented on the word amorousness
No. I reject amorousal as well.
Mind you I have nothing against a---------s itself. It's the word that bothers me. All those wanton vowels or something.
October 7, 2008