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Titillation

Titillation \Tit`il*la"tion\, n. [L. titillatio: cf. F. titillation.]

  1. The act of tickling, or the state of being tickled; a tickling sensation.
    --A. Tucker.

  2. Any pleasurable sensation.

    Those titillations that reach no higher than the senses.
    --Glanvill.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
titillation

early 15c., "pleasing excitement," from Latin titillationem (nominative titillatio) "a tickling," noun of action from past participle stem of titillare "to tickle," imitative of giggling.

Wiktionary
titillation

n. a pleasurable or sexually excite sensation

WordNet
titillation
  1. n. a tingling feeling of excitement (as from teasing or tickling)

  2. an agreeable arousal

  3. the act of tickling [syn: tickle, tickling]

Usage examples of "titillation".

Filled with titillation, sarcasm, innuendos, and suggestions of radical activities of a violent nature.

Beyond a basic sexual titillation, I had no interest in her or any other girls.

The titillation of the gift was playing havoc with his libido and his temper, and every time he rubbed his thumb across the lace in his pocket, he grew harder.

Vicaria when the mood for sensual titillation came upon her and her aging parent.

I continued to suck and nibble at her left bubbie-bud, the while my right forefinger continued its titillation of her turgid clitoris.

Between those vast extremes there are hundreds of intermediate functions, rising in worth and authority from the direct gratifications of appetite to the ideal appropriations of transcendental good, from the titillation given by a pinch of snuff to the thrill imparted by an imaginative contemplation of the redeemed state of humanity a million years ahead.

The persuasive titillation of his mouth and tongue blunted her will to resist, and though she relished each blissful stroke that strummed across the gutstrings of her being, she strove desperately to gather the scattered fragments of her wits.

The film had a new, liberated attitude towards sex, not the hypocritical titillation of Tinseltown but a gritty, down-to-earth, Lawrentian approach in keeping with the changing times.

Some contained titillation and scandal mongering, but to Bellis they were depressingly parochial.

Marianne was the perfect image of the synchronized swimmer, but she scorned both the strict discipline and the public titillation involved.

But in this night they could have been vagrant titillations experienced by a bodiless entity.