Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Abnormal irritability or sensitivity of an organ or a body part to stimulation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In physiology, excitement or stimulation of any organ or tissue, specifically of the organs of generation: as, the sexual erethism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A morbid degree of excitement or irritation in an organ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pathology Abnormal excitement of a bodily
organ ortissue . - noun Any unusual or morbid
overexcitement .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an abnormally high degree of irritability or sensitivity to stimulation of an organ or body part
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Inhalation of mercury vapor over a long period may cause mercurialism which is characterized by fine tremors and erethism" "" Erethism may be manifested by abnormal shyness, blushing, self-consciousness, depression or despondency, resentment of criticism, irritability or excitability, headache, fatigue and insomnia.
THE MERCURY MISCHIEF: As Obama Warns of Hazards, the FDA Approves Mercury Dental Fillings 2009
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The intense excitement of the events had no doubt left my perceptive powers in a state of erethism.
The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009
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Inhalation of mercury vapor over a long period may cause mercurialism which is characterized by fine tremors and erethism ...
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The intense excitement of the events had no doubt left my perceptive powers in a state of erethism.
The War of The Worlds by H. G. Wells: Part 2 | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2005
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The intense excitement of the events had no doubt left my perceptive powers in a state of erethism.
The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006
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But erethism, as we shall see in another chapter upon the analysis of the sex impulse, is not confined to the sexual organs, but is distributed throughout the entire body, especially through the vascular and nervous systems.
A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love between the Sexes Sanford Bell
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Normally, there appears to be no erethism of the sexual organs during the process of love-making.
A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love between the Sexes Sanford Bell
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Until the climax of the sexual erethism, woman is for man the acme of supreme desire; but with detumescence the emotions tend to swing to the opposite pole, and excitement and longing are forgotten in the mood of repugnance and exhaustion.
Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family Melvin Moses Knight 1934
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The intense excitement of the events had no doubt left my perceptive powers in a state of erethism.
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The Professor, already exacerbated by the study of the humanities, was in a state of acute erethism.
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