horniness

noun

1
as in lust
intense sexual desire another movie comedy that celebrates the unbridled horniness of the teenage boy

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2
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 movie boasts entirely original characters, Lovecraftian vibes, a young Brad Pitt, and explicit horniness. — James Grebey, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026 Rich might have been afraid of putting too much explanatory weight on a writer’s existential boredom (or horniness). — Literary Hub, 16 July 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
  1. lust
  2. desire
  3. passion
  4. eroticism
Noun
  • The trailer shows the team, who are part of the Heritage Crime Unit, on the trail of a new case set in the rich and colorful world of art and antiques, where greed, obsession, lust, and revenge drives people to murder.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 10 Nov. 2026
  • There’s a natural lane here for understanding what lust looks like in the vacuum of space.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of lust
Noun
  • In the wake of tragedy and separation, she is lost, wary of the immensity and opacity of her desire; anger crouches inside her, too, a fact that her divorce made mercilessly clear to her.
    — Jamie Hood, New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2026
  • These papers have hosted the voices of those who have parsed out the details of how Newsom’s across-the-board commutations are legally suspect in various ways, and indeed argued that Newsom is undermining the desires of Californians.
    — Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of desire
Noun
  • And what really blew me away was their passion and their commitment to wanting to keep our theater program going.
    — Lisa Hughes, CBS News, 12 Nov. 2026
  • The brick-and-mortar foray arrives amid explosive online growth for 10-year-old Destree, which has parlayed Guyot-Arnault’s passion for modern and contemporary art into unique hats, handbags, jewelry and ready-to-wear, now its biggest category.
    — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 12 Nov. 2026
Definition of passion
Noun
  • For all the awkwardness of its premise, the film keeps away from eroticism, even with its younger characters.
    — Jenny S. Li, Variety, 8 Nov. 2026
  • That striking eroticism has done wonders for this movie’s marketing campaign too, which maybe has come as a surprise to you both.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of eroticism

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“Horniness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horniness. Accessed 13 Nov. 2026.

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