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adulterousness

noun

The quality of being adulterous, involving sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse.

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Word length
14
Starts with
A
Ends with
S
Contains
DU
Scrabble score
15
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

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Pronunciation

əˈdʌltəɹəsnəs

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Definitions

noun

  1. The quality of being adulterous, involving sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse.

    “He consequently interprets his own behaviour in sociobiological terms so that, having slept with his ex-wife Charlotte in her current marital bed, he is unnerved not by the adulterousness of the act, which is routine for him, but by the infringement of male territorial boundaries.”

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Example Sentences

He consequently interprets his own behaviour in sociobiological terms so that, having slept with his ex-wife Charlotte in her current marital bed, he is unnerved not by the adulterousness of the act, which is routine for him, but by the infringement of male territorial boundaries.
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