Synonyms of horniness

horniness

noun

1

as in lust

intense sexual desire

another movie comedy that celebrates the unbridled horniness of the teenage boy

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lust
• lustfulness
• passion
• eroticism
• concupiscence
• ardor
• eros
• itch
• nymphomania
• erotomania
• lasciviousness
• satyriasis
• lewdness
• salaciousness
• licentiousness
• wantonness
• randiness
• libidinousness
• lickerishness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• frigidity

2

as in desire

sexual appetite

a drug that promises to provide a man the horniness of one half his age

Synonyms & Similar Words

• desire
• passion
• lust
• lustfulness
• eroticism
• concupiscence
• itch
• hots
• salaciousness
• lech
• libido
• letch
• heat
• libidinousness
• lustihood
• lechery
• ardor
• nymphomania
• hypersexuality
• rut
• erotomania
• satyriasis
• lecherousness
• venery

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• abstinence
• chastity
• celibacy
• frigidity
• frigidness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of horniness

Rich might have been afraid of putting too much explanatory weight on a writer’s existential boredom (or horniness). — Literary Hub, 16 July 2026

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. — 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