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Webster 1913 Edition


titillation

titˊil-la′tion

(tĭtˊĭl-lā′shŭn)
,
Noun.
[L.
titillatio
: cf. F.
titillation
.]
1.
The act of tickling, or the state of being tickled; a tickling sensation.
A. Tucker.
2.
Any pleasurable sensation.
Those
titillations
that reach no higher than the senses.
Glanvill.

Webster 1828 Edition


Titillation

TITILLA'TION

,
Noun.
[L. titillatio.]
1.
The act of tickling; or the state of being tickled.
2.
Any slight pleasure.
The products of those titillations that reach no higher than the senses.

Definition 2024


titillation

titillation

English

Noun

titillation (countable and uncountable, plural titillations)

  1. a pleasurable or sexually exciting sensation
    • 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 5
      there feeling, and most gently indeed, squeezing those tender globular reservoirs; the magic touch took instant effect, quicken'd, and brought on upon the spur the symptoms of that sweet agony, the melting moment of dissolution, when pleasure dies by pleasure, and the mysterious engine of it overcomes the titillation it has rais'd in those parts, by plying them with the stream of a warm liquid that is itself the highest of all titillations
  1. the process or outcome of titillating