Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A swelling or enlarging.
- noun A swollen condition.
- noun A swollen part or organ.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of growing tumid; tumefaction.
- noun A swelling, tumid part, or tumor; an intumescence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of becoming tumid; the state of being swollen; intumescence; -- applied especially to the state of swelling of the vascular tissue in the male and female sex organs when they have been stimulated to readiness for sexual intercourse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
swelling due to the presence offluid . - noun A swollen bodily
organ ; used especially oferectile tissue .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tumidity resulting from the presence of blood or other fluid in the tissues
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Examples
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The Liberals let the budget pass, which left the Harper government in office but in a state of political semi-tumescence, which is where it's been since those first days.
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The Liberals let the budget pass, which left the Harper government in office but in a state of political semi-tumescence, which is where it's been since those first days.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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For those who know what "tumescence" is, the term makes a lot of sense.
Hey Murdoch, Take a lesson from the Smut Kings - Jim Louderback - MediaBizBloggers 2009
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It is tumescence which is the really essential part of the process, and we cannot afford, with Moll, to ignore it altogether.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899
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This description clearly brings out the fundamentally vascular character of the process I have termed "tumescence"; it must be added, however, that in man the nervous elements in the process tend to become more conspicuous, and more or less obliterate these primitive limitations of sexual desire.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899
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Courtship, properly understood, is the process whereby both the male and the female are brought into that state of sexual tumescence which is a more or less necessary condition for sexual intercourse.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899
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The justification for using the term "tumescence," which I here propose, is to be found in the fact that vascular congestion, more especially of the parts related to generation, is an essential preliminary to acute sexual desire.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899
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Viagra and other ED medications help increase male tumescence and enhance performance issues.
Think Progress » Kansas lawmaker compares rape to auto theft. 2010
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Viagra and other ED medications help increase male tumescence and enhance performance issues.
Think Progress » Kansas lawmaker compares rape to auto theft. 2010
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Curbishley proceeded to ramp up the levels of tumescence by looking sleek and smooth and – to be frank – insufficiently excited by Transfer Deadline Day despite the huge clock ticking away just beneath his neatly folded hands.
Transfer deadline day's hype is over, long live the quavering hype | Barney Ronay 2011
ofravens commented on the word tumescence
From a review of the X-Files episode 'Je Souhaite,' maybe the first time I can remember actually bursting into laughter because of something I read on the Internet (in my defense, I was only thirteen at the time...):
"Who says you don't learn anything from television. This week on The X-Files we learned the fancy shmancy got-it-past-the-censors way to say 'death by a huge hard-on': 'extreme priapic condition'
or 'chronic morbid tumescence.'"
March 21, 2008
bilby commented on the word tumescence
Etymology at tumescent.
April 19, 2018