salacity

noun

Etymology: From salac(ious) + -ity, from Latin salācitās, from Latin salāx (“salacious, lustful”) + -ity.

1. The state or quality of being salacious; lewdness, obscenity, bawdiness.

   “One of the males is sufficient in procreation for seuen or nine of the females, and by that means they are made more fruitful, but if you put them one male to one femal, then will the venereous salacity of the male procure abortment.”

   “Aristotle gives instance in sparrows, which are parum vivaces ob salacitatem, short-lived because of their salacity, which is very frequent […]”

2. An act that is salacious, (lewd, obscene or bawdy); a salacious image or piece of writing.

   “The editors of the Unitarian New Version of the New Testament, who very modestly wish to shovel all these spurcities and salacities out of the sacred text, have the impudence to tell us, in a note, that they were interpolated to lessen the odium attached to Christianity […]”

   “[…] from the hilltop were to be seen no cluttered barren lots sodden with spring rain and churned and torn by hoof of horse and cattle, no piles of winter ashes and rusting tin cans, no dingy hoardings covered with the tattered insanities of posted salacities and advertisements.”