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