Synonyms for licentiousness
li·cen·tious·ness

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1. licentiousnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   debauchery

2. licentiousnessnoun

   The property of being licentious.

   Synonyms:
   debauchery

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1. licentiousness, wantonnessnoun

   the quality of being lewd and lascivious

   Synonyms:
   dissolution, wantonness, unconstraint, abandon, looseness, dissipation, profligacy

2. profligacy, dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, loosenessnoun

   dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure

   Synonyms:
   looseness, waste, adjournment, prodigality, dissipation, dissolution, wastefulness, diarrhea, play, looseness of the bowels, dissolving, extravagance, wantonness, profligacy, breakup, diarrhoea, disintegration

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1. George Washington:

   Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

2. James Wilson:

   Liberty and happiness have a powerful enemy on each hand; on the one hand tyranny, on the other licentiousness [anarchy]. To guard against the latter, it is necessary to give the proper powers to government; and to guard against the former, it is necessary that those powers should be properly distributed.

3. Jeremy Collier:

   Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.