Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The highest point of sexual excitement, characterized by strong feelings of pleasure and marked normally by ejaculation of semen by the male and by involuntary vaginal contractions in the female.
- noun A similar point of intensity of emotional excitement.
- intransitive verb To experience an orgasm.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Immoderate excitement or action.
- noun In medicine, a state of excitement in an organ: applied chiefly to the acme of venereal excitement in sexual intercourse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol.) Eager or immoderate excitement or action; the state of turgescence of any organ; erethism.
- noun 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.
- noun An eruption of intense, uncontrolled excitement; -- used of groups and individuals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To have an orgasm.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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Because she knows that her parents will settle out of court just to keep the word "orgasm" out of her blog the papers.
Ginger Emas: Why Do the Best Stories Come From My Divorced Pals? Ginger Emas 2011
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Because she knows that her parents will settle out of court just to keep the word "orgasm" out of her blog the papers.
Ginger Emas: Why Do the Best Stories Come From My Divorced Pals? Ginger Emas 2011
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I don't see how Jesus having an orgasm is anti-Christian hate speech.
Leanne Goebel: Colorado Councilman May Want to Explore Why Art "Turned Him On?" Leanne Goebel 2010
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I don't see how Jesus having an orgasm is anti-Christian hate speech.
Leanne Goebel: Colorado Councilman May Want to Explore Why Art "Turned Him On?" Leanne Goebel 2010
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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.
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I don't see how Jesus having an orgasm is anti-Christian hate speech.
Leanne Goebel: Colorado Councilman May Want to Explore Why Art "Turned Him On?" Leanne Goebel 2010
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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.
“Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex” by Mary Roach (Norton, 2008) « The BookBanter Blog 2010
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“The orgasm is God, the orgasm should be worshiped,” Bebeacua once told the Kvällsposten newspaper.
mollusque commented on the word orgasm
My friends say I can talk snails into orgasm.
--Mark Helprin, 1991, A Soldier of the Great War, p. 214
November 8, 2007
reesetee commented on the word orgasm
One of my all-time favorite books. :-)
November 8, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word orgasm
One of my all-time favorite comments.
November 8, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word orgasm
What exactly does an orgasmic snail look like?
November 9, 2007
skipvia commented on the word orgasm
Well, there's a little trail of slime...
November 9, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word orgasm
Oh yuck. That's barfmaking.
November 9, 2007
reesetee commented on the word orgasm
You had to ask, SoG. ;-)
November 9, 2007