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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. 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.
  2. n. A similar point of intensity of emotional excitement.
  3. v. To experience an orgasm.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Immoderate excitement or action.
  2. n. In medicine, a state of excitement in an organ: applied chiefly to the acme of venereal excitement in sexual intercourse.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The climax or peak of sexual pleasure which occurs during sexual activity and which in males may include ejaculation and in females vaginal contractions and vocalizations.
  2. n. A taste or otherwise sensual experience which may resemble the feelings of a climax.
  3. v. To have an orgasm.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Eager or immoderate excitement or action; the state of turgescence of any organ; erethism.
  2. 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.
  3. n. An eruption of intense, uncontrolled excitement; -- used of groups and individuals.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse

Etymologies

  1. French orgasme or New Latin orgasmus, both from Greek orgasmos, from orgān, to swell up, be excited.

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  • 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

‘orgasm’ has been looked up 3338 times, loved by 3 people, added to 42 lists, commented on 7 times, and has a Scrabble score of 9.