salacity

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From salac(ious) + -ity, from Latin salācitās, from Latin salāx (“salacious, lustful”) + -ity.

On one occasion I was witness to the most remarkable salacity on the part of an individual. — The North-West Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes, Thomas Whiffen
SALACITY, n. A certain literary quality frequently observed in popular novels, especially in those written by women and young girls, who give it another name and think that in introducing it they are occupying a neglected field of letters and reaping an overlooked harvest. — The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce
In the eddies he saw women of manifest respectability, mothers and wives in the arms of their husbands, young women who were plainly what are called "nice girls," and wholesome-looking young men of deferential bearing; yet mingled with them almost inextricably, brushing against them, tripping over their feet, tangling elbows with them, were youth of precocious salacity, shop-girls of their own bodies, and repulsive veterans from the barracks of evil. — What Will People Say? A Novel, Rupert Hughes

obscenity, lewdness, bawdiness, salaciousness

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