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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
Deena is preoccupied by her romantic designs on Maddie and general horniness.
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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
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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Louise Hémon The jury would also like to acknowledge a director whose film transported us into an extreme landscape, and created an unsettling atmosphere that kept us contemplating the nature of lust, education, and violence.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
24 Oct. 2025
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The story's become one of most iconic tales of the 20th century, one filled to the brim with glorious weirdness, corruption, blood, lust and plenty of song and dance.—
Audrey Gibbs,
Nashville Tennessean,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Appetite refers to the desire to eat.—
Merve Ceylan,
Health,
26 Oct. 2025
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This decision comes from a place of necessity, not desire.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
26 Oct. 2025
Noun
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His children inspired his barbecue sauce line After leaving the NFL, Mangold put his passion for food into a barbecue sauce line, known as Mangold's 74 BBQ.—
Jordana Comiter,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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From farmers and engineers to food safety specialists and packaging workers, Taylor Farms employs thousands who share a passion for producing fresh, healthy food.—
William Jones,
Freep.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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On the other side of the coin, a hearty shift toward big romance and a little eroticism has not kept Swift from dipping into her characteristically more reflective songwriting, as a yin to the album’s celebratory yang.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2025
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But Masumura’s manner is raw and harsh, a cinematic parallel to pulp fiction, with intense emotional and physical violence, candid and heated eroticism, hectic performances, and luridly skewed visual compositions.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Horniness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horniness. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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