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Sultriness

noun
1.
Oppressively hot and humid weather.
2.
The quality of expressing or arousing sexual desire.  "The sultriness of lust was in the air"





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"Sultriness" Quotes from Famous Books



... join the Kunau detachment. All went silently onward, and looked with keen glance from tree to tree. As they got farther into the wood, there was a rustling in the tops of the trees, and looking through them, a leaden-colored sky was seen; but below, the sultriness was undisturbed, the birds sat supinely on the branches, and the beetles had crept ...
— Debit and Credit - Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag • Gustav Freytag


Words linked to "Sultriness" :   hot weather, sex appeal, desirableness, desirability, oomph, sultry


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