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Narrator: Today's word is "Promiscuity" — noun, pronounced /ˌprɒmɪˈskjuːəti/, with the stress on "skew".
Narrator: Promiscuity is the practice of having many casual sexual partners.
Narrator: In plain English, it is sleeping around.
Narrator: It comes from the Latin promiscuus, mixed up or indiscriminate.
Narrator: A common collocation is "sexual promiscuity", which describes the main sense.
Narrator: It differs from "infidelity", because infidelity breaks a commitment, while promiscuity need not.
Narrator: In biology and computing, promiscuity means acting without selection, like enzymes binding many targets.
Narrator: Sociology, medicine, biology and networking all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: promiscuity means indiscriminate mixing.
Speaker A: Is promiscuity a judgemental word?
Speaker B: It often is! PROMISCUITY comes from the Latin for mixed up.
Speaker A: So be careful using it?
Speaker B: Yes, especially about people.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "The novel caused scandal for depicting promiscuity", literature. "Enzyme promiscuity helps evolution", biology. "Health campaigns avoided blaming promiscuity", public health.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Promiscuity can sound moralising, so prefer neutral phrases in health writing.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Licentiousness is its cousin, looseness is its old twin, and indiscriminateness is the technical alternative, but promiscuity keeps its mixed-up charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "promiscuity" in AI prompts — useful for science summaries and inclusive writing.
Speaker A: How would science summaries use it?
Speaker B: Technical sense.
Prompt: Explain enzyme promiscuity to first-year biology students in five sentences.
Speaker A: And inclusive writing?
Speaker B: Check tone.
Prompt: Rewrite this sexual health leaflet to avoid judgemental words like promiscuity.
Speaker A: Could it help literature study?
Speaker B: Yes, themes.
Prompt: Discuss how Victorian novels portrayed promiscuity and social punishment.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Networking.
Prompt: Explain why promiscuity in network interfaces can be a security risk.
Promiscuity — meaning in Arabic & definition More P courses GL Dictionary