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How to pronounce carnality in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms lasciviousness, lubricity, prurience, pruriency
Type of amativeness, amorousness, eroticism, erotism, sexiness
Derivation carnal

Examples of carnality

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Apatow's overlong cannabis-and-carnality romps are wearing out their welcome.
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Instead, the scene is sweet, a bit humorous, and more about intimacy than carnality.
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Her attack on the male world is based on calculated carnality, on the woman as animal.
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Mr. Herzog's film, more than any other, mines the ever-present carnality of the genre.
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Hellishly pricey perhaps, but the colors and textures of PM positively radiate carnality.
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The characters are endearingly conventional who are merely owning up to their carnality.
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It was chock-full of racy lyrics, but the carnality didn't stop there.
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Better to study, say, the suave carnality of Gary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in Notorious.
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This singer's commitment may be total, but it's got as much to do with carnality as idealism.
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More examples
  • Prurience: feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
  • (carnal) animal(a): marked by the appetites and passions of the body; "animal instincts"; "carnal knowledge"; "fleshly desire"; "a sensual delight in eating"; "music is the only sensual pleasure without vice"
  • (carnal) of or relating to the body or flesh; "carnal remains"
  • The state of being carnal; A preoccupation with sexual desire
  • (carnal) sensual; sexual (of the flesh)
  • (carnal) Pertaining to the flesh, or fleshly desires.
  • (Carnal) Unconverted men are so called (Co1 3:3). They are represented as of a "carnal mind, which is enmity against God" (Rom 8:6, Rom 8:7). Enjoyments that minister to the wants and desires of man's animal nature are so called (Rom 15:27; Co1 9:11). ...
  • (carnal (cahrnawl)) n: flesh and blood; a relative.
  • (carnal) close friend; a close relative (lit.: flesh)