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licentiousness

noun

licentiousness is spelled L-I-C-E-N-T-I-O-U-S-N-E-S-S: 14 letters. It appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, licentiousness means “The property of being licentious” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of licentiousness is licentiousnesses.

How many letters and syllables are in licentiousness?

Letters14: L-I-C-E-N-T-I-O-U-S-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 12 million words; the 105,204th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is licentiousness?

Licentiousness appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of licentiousness

  • licentiousnesses plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does licentiousness mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The property of being licentious.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Licentiousness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense property of being licentious:

LanguageWords
Frenchlicenciosité, licence
GermanZügellosigkeit, Freizügigkeit, Unzüchtigkeit
Spanishlicenciosidad, libertinaje, puterío

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does licentiousness come from?

From licentious + -ness.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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