Why this word is great
LIBERTINAGE — [Noun] The conduct or activities of a libertine; licentiousness. From the French libertinage, from libertine ("freethinker, morally unrestrained person") + -age (noun-forming suffix indicating state or condition). Unlike "libertinism" (which wears its philosophy like a cravat) or "hedonism" (which chases pleasure with the earnestness of a gourmand), libertinage is the unbuttoned shirt, the spilled wine, the laughter that lingers too long in the wrong company. It is the silk stocking discarded on the staircase, the candle guttering at dawn, the way a life lived without restraint can look, in the cold light of morning, like a series of small abandonments—each one easier than the last. A reminder that freedom, untethered, becomes its own confinement.