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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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Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel Hamnet imagined the relationship between the Bard and his spouse as an intimate tale of lust, compromise, joy, resentment, support, and sorrow.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025
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Love and lust were at the heart of True Blood — and not just in the swamps of Bon Temps.—
Jane LaCroix,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Your creative abilities and desire for fun, games and enjoyment will all be enhanced, as well.—
Kyle Thomas,
PEOPLE,
14 Sep. 2025
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And that simple desire — to play at home — is precisely why Enfield Town exists.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
14 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Hess talked about chess with a sense of gravity that went beyond interest or mere passion; an elegant move or complex position would light him up.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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Beyond the gridiron and his partnership with Hot Wheels, Wilson continues to build on his passion for inspiring the next generation through his lifestyle brand, 3BRAND.—
Andy Frye,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Yet the same works have been linked to Deleuze and Guattari’s 1972 book Anti-Oedipus, their unapologetic female eroticism read as a rejection of the psychoanalytic perspective that reinforces capitalist domination over human experience.—
Elizabeth Mangini,
Artforum,
1 Sep. 2025
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His introspective works would range from stories of ordinary life to more overt surrealism, their atmospheres tinged with dreaminess, eroticism and mysterious tensions.—
Josh Slater-Williams,
IndieWire,
17 Aug. 2025
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“Horniness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horniness. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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