Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The peak of sexual excitement, characterized by strong feelings of pleasure and by a series of involuntary contractions of the muscles of the genitals, usually accompanied by the ejaculation of semen by the male. Also called climax.
- n. A similar point of intensity of emotional excitement.
- v. To experience an orgasm.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Immoderate excitement or action.
- n. In medicine, a state of excitement in an organ: applied chiefly to the acme of venereal excitement in sexual intercourse.
Wiktionary
- v. To have an orgasm.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Physiol.) Eager or immoderate excitement or action; the state of turgescence of any organ; erethism.
- n. The peak of the physical pleasurable sexual excitement caused by stimulation of the sexual organs, as in intercourse; in the male, it is usually accompanied by ejaculation.
- n. An eruption of intense, uncontrolled excitement; -- used of groups and individuals.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
Etymologies
- From Late Latin orgasmus, from Ancient Greek ὀργασμός (orgasmós, "orgasm"), from ὀργάω (orgaō, "to swell with moisture"). (Wiktionary)
- French orgasme or New Latin orgasmus, both from Greek orgasmos, from orgān, to swell up, be excited. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The word 'orgasm' comes from the Greek word orgasmos, signifying a certain 'swelling', which not only gives us an idea of what's happening to the body, but a clue as to how people feel about them.”
“Because she knows that her parents will settle out of court just to keep the word "orgasm" out of her blog the papers.”
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“Roach continues as she did with Stiff to “turn off” readers as she goes into detail on what takes place during penis surgery, having seen it performed before her very eyes; as well as revealing the scientific fact that because an orgasm is essentially a reflexive response to specific stimuli over time, a dead body would be able to have one.”
““The orgasm is God, the orgasm should be worshiped,” Bebeacua once told the Kvällsposten newspaper.”
“I don't see how Jesus having an orgasm is anti-Christian hate speech.”
The Huffington Post: Leanne Goebel: Colorado Councilman May Want to Explore Why Art "Turned Him On?"
“No need for that when an orgasm is a button press away during his off time.”
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“Do any of these guys know what a female orgasm is suposed to be simulated?”
“A screaming orgasm is made with kahlua, amaretto, vodka, and Irish Cream.”
“Brisseau is an artist attuned to the spiritual, looking for transcendence in orgasm, that place where the 'grace of the pleasure on their faces' intersects with the gratitude and surrender of Bernini's St Theresa (the syllogism isn't a fresh one, but this doesn't damper the beauty).”
“Of all the things you can do to a person, giving someone an orgasm is hardly the worst thing in the world.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘orgasm’.
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G[r]eek
A collection of words found in English that are either purely Greek or have Greek etymology.
Please add with caution and certainty. Will be regularly updated by me.etymology, philosophy, laconic, disharmony, patriarchic, archaic, phlogiston, aether, aeon, angel, arachnid, rhythm and 346 more...
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Ends in "-sm" but isn't an "ism"
pleonasm, prism, schism, orgasm, spasm, iconoclasm, chasm, enthusiasm, phantasm, ectoplasm, cytoplasm, aneurysm and 55 more...
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touchy-feely
manhandle, orgasm, osculation, rutting, necking, fuck, finger fuck
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adamogiovane's Words
older woman, younger man, age gap relationship, non-fiction, sensuality, relationship, life, sex, love, hugs, kisses, breast and 147 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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in one hour
what you can get nowadays in about an hour
one hour martinizing, prescription glasses, drunk, orgasm, sixty minutes, lunch, a few seconds
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Faintheart's Words
onomatopoeia, no, terrafactive, word, faint, heart, joy, quixotic, karla, half, amp, tardis and 181 more...
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Let's talk about sex
A collection of words about doing the nasty.
prurient, odalisque, soubrette, gravid, lochia, xenogamy, syngamy, zygote, pintle, hexaploid, seminal, hetaera and 232 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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dickcherry's drivel
the words i'm thinking with
doing, boing, going, tincture, pingback, womenswear, jounce, wrack, a, ish, beeswax, thither and 97 more...
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My first attempt.
Simply stated, my first list.
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European World Systems
europe, colonization, defense, barter, feudalism, gunpowder, technology, guns, domination, lords, monarchs, transition and 250 more...
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Jacqueline's Words
glittery, horny, amazing, wanderlust, forlorn, lustily, nonchalant, cool, passive, submissive, roundabout, carousel and 558 more...
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sexual feelings
words describing the sexual parts of life
snog, shag, copulate, intercourse, paraphilia, carnal, fetish, fornicate, abstinence, foreplay, coitus, chastity and 119 more...
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nuwerdna's Words
smegma, defenestration, nubile, zeitgeist, stochastic, ergodic, stability, maudlin, recursion, aversion, agent, set and 239 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for orgasm.
reesetee You had to ask, SoG. ;-) Nov 8, 2007
chained_bear Oh yuck. That's barfmaking. Nov 8, 2007
skipvia Well, there's a little trail of slime... Nov 8, 2007
sonofgroucho What exactly does an orgasmic snail look like? Nov 8, 2007
chained_bear One of my all-time favorite comments. Nov 8, 2007
reesetee One of my all-time favorite books. :-) Nov 8, 2007
mollusque My friends say I can talk snails into orgasm.
--Mark Helprin, 1991, A Soldier of the Great War, p. 214 Nov 8, 2007