immodesty

English

Etymology

From im- +‎ modesty or immodest +‎ -y.

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Noun

immodesty (usually uncountable, plural immodesties)

1. The state of being immodest; a lack of modesty.
2. (euphemistic) The genitals, privates.
   • 1665, Pietro Della Valle, “From Goa, January 31. 1624”, in George Havers, transl., The Travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, a Noble Roman, into East-India and Arabia Deserta‎, page 183:

     No sooner were we seated in this place, but two Girls about twelve years old enter'd at the same Gate whereat we came in; they were all naked, (as, I said above, the Women generally go) saving that they had a very small blew cloth wrap'd about their immodesties [trans. vergogne], and their Arms, Ears, and Necks, were full of ornaments of Gold and very rich Jewels.

Translations

state of being immodest

Armenian: անհամեստություն (hy) (anhamestutʻyun) Azerbaijani: təvazösüzlük Bulgarian: безсрамие (bg) n (bezsramie), неприличие n (nepriličie) French: immodestie (fr) f Hindi: निर्लज्जता (hi) f (nirlajjatā) Hungarian: szerénytelenség (hu) Polish: bezpruderyjność (pl) f (literary, of one's approach to sex) Serbo-Croatian: nèskromnōst (sh) f Volapük: nepued (vo)