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as in lust
intense sexual desire
another movie comedy that celebrates the unbridled horniness of the teenage boy
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as in desire
sexual appetite
a drug that promises to provide a man the horniness of one half his age
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Recent Examples of horniness
Wuthering Heights has the tunnel-vision horniness and girlish aesthetic sensibility of a high-school freshman who’s been assigned to read Brontë in class while tearing through a pile of explicit bodice-rippers under the covers at home.
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2026
The latter's exceptionally epic run during season 5 displayed the kind of reckless flair and horniness not seen on television since Samantha Jones—another PR maven from the mind of Darren Star—sashayed out of our lives with the final Sex and the City film in 2010.
—Sam Reed, Glamour, 6 Jan. 2026
Deena is preoccupied by her romantic designs on Maddie and general horniness.
—Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
Respectfully, the entire meat of the series is its indiscribable, inescapable, horniness.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2025
Alison Willmore, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2026
The latter's exceptionally epic run during season 5 displayed the kind of reckless flair and horniness not seen on television since Samantha Jones—another PR maven from the mind of Darren Star—sashayed out of our lives with the final Sex and the City film in 2010.
—Sam Reed, Glamour, 6 Jan. 2026
Deena is preoccupied by her romantic designs on Maddie and general horniness.
—Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
Respectfully, the entire meat of the series is its indiscribable, inescapable, horniness.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horniness
Noun
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The show captures the frenzy of all-consuming lust and the chaos that arises in the wake of a blazing hot relationship without true depth or knowledge of the other partner.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
18 Feb. 2026
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Keough alone could carry the film, embodying the most peculiar mix of lust and off-kilter desire in her baby-blue thigh high boots.—
David Opie,
IndieWire,
15 Feb. 2026
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The three women, all widows, were brought together by their shared grief and desire to help others in the same situation.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
22 Feb. 2026
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The difficulty lies in aligning financial reality, operational necessity, and emotional desire into a decision that makes sense five and 10 years from now.—
Allen Buchanan,
Oc Register,
21 Feb. 2026
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July 23 – August 22 A calm focus fuels your ambition more than chaotic passion.—
Tarot.com,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Feb. 2026
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Expectations are high in a country for which hockey is a national pastime, passion, and obsession rolled into one.—
Sean Gregory,
Time,
21 Feb. 2026
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The book’s eroticism mostly comes from the words exchanged between Cathy and Heathcliff, many of which do make it into Fennell’s film.—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
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This is eroticism without prurience.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Horniness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horniness. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.
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