prurition
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin prurire (“to itch”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]prurition (uncountable)
- itching
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- He scratched imprecisely with his right hand, though insensible of prurition, various points and surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin.