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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
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.
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Sam Reed, Glamour, 6 Jan. 2026
Produced two years after Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein shares a few things — lush production values, fidelity to the novel, ambient horniness — with its predecessor.
—Katie Rife, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2025
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
Sam Reed, Glamour, 6 Jan. 2026
Produced two years after Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein shares a few things — lush production values, fidelity to the novel, ambient horniness — with its predecessor.
—Katie Rife, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2025
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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Her memoir writing on the independent artist’s life has driven me to purchase silk sheets and lust after writing sheds, while novels like The Man Who Saw Everything glitter with ambitious formal turns.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
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By contrast, Bondi’s vow of wrathful punishment is profoundly illiberal, suggesting a lust for criminal vengeance.—
Paul Rosenzweig,
The Atlantic,
3 Jan. 2026
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The trend captures a kind of affordable opulence, a desire to evoke the elegance of wealth without its cost.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
9 Nov. 2025
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His decision to make the move to college was in large part driven by a desire to test himself.—
Scott Wheeler,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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Eventually, his parents surrendered to his passion for figure skating.—
Marcus Thompson II,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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Collegial car vibes For many of the program’s students, the schooling offers a chance to professionalize their passion.—
Daniel Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Jan. 2026
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Likewise, the intensely retrograde gender politics—and the text’s out-of-control, onanistic eroticism—seem fairly personal and specific.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Dec. 2025
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The performance unfolds as an interplay of contrasts between excess and stillness, eroticism and virtuosity, violence and intimacy.—
Jana Baumann,
Artforum,
1 Dec. 2025
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“Horniness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horniness. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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