lechery means inordinate indulgence in sexual activity. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 83 out of 100.
lechery is pronounced /ˈlɛt͡ʃ.əɹ.i/.
Why “lechery” is a great word
LECHERY — [Noun] The habitual and excessive indulgence in sexual appetite. From Middle English lecherie (c. 1200), from Old French lecherie, from lecheor ("lecher, glutton"). Unlike "lust," which names the raw, interior craving, or "libertinism," which implies a principled philosophy of freedom, lechery denotes the practiced, morally freighted behavior—the enacted biography of appetite. It is the sour sweat on velvet, the hollow clink of a coin on a nightstand, the boastful, mirthless laugh in a tavern's dim corner—the tedious machinery of a vice long after the pleasure has fled, a confession not of passion, but of poverty.
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