Meanings
- slanguncountablevulgarThe state, quality, or extent of being horny or sexually excited.
Horniness is just a mental state with a physical repercussion.
2015, Bink Cummings, MC Chronicles, The Diary of Bink Cummings, Vol. 24 more examples
He was visited on a lunar basis by these great unspecific waves of horniness, whereby all women within a certain age group and figure envelope became immediately and impossibly desirable.
1963, Thomas Pynchon, V., →ISBN, page 32I'm not thinking we're star-crossed lovers or anything. I've mistaken regular-ass horniness for the cosmic pull of destiny before. And I always ended up worse for it.
2021 June 15 [2020 March 13], Takako Shimura, translated by Jocelyne Allen, edited by Shannon Fay, Even Though We're Adults, volume 2, Seven Seas Entertainment, →ISBN, page 72“Less Lonely,” Tom’s solo comedy show about their quest for love, sex and gender confirmation “at the end of the world,” swerves between self-deprecation, vulnerability and shameless horniness.
2023 December 14, Gina Cherelus, “The Trans Comic Looking for Love ‘at the End of the World’”, in The New York Times, →ISSNI was about to collapse into a ritual of frustrated horniness (fantasy, masturbation, snacks) when a friend urged me to join her and two other women for dinner.
2025 July 21, Jean Garnett, “The Trouble With Wanting Men”, in The New York Times, →ISSNSynonyms: randiness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe state, quality, or extent of being horny or sexually excited.
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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Translations
Dutch geilheid
- geilheidsexual excitement
Finnish kiimaisuus
- kiimaisuussexual excitement
German Geilheit
- Geilheitsexual excitement
Greek κάβλα, καύλα
- κάβλα (kávla)sexual excitement
- καύλα (kávla)sexual excitement
Icelandic gredda
- greddasexual excitement
Irish adharcacht
- adharcachtsexual excitement
Spanish calentón, calentura
- calentónsexual excitement
- calenturasexual excitement
- arrechurasexual excitement
- arrecherasexual excitement
Swedish kåthet, kättja
- kåthetsexual excitement
- kättjasexual excitement
Tagalog pangangandi, utog
- pangangandisexual excitement
- utogsexual excitement
Cite this entry
horniness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/horniness
“horniness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/horniness. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “horniness,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/horniness.
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