The story
- Italian · borrowed fromcarezza“caress”
- English todaykarezza
Coined by Alice Bunker Stockham from Italian carezza (“caress”). Doublet of caress.
Words from the same roots
Italiancarezza all →
caress
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
karezza
Today it means: Non-religious spiritual sexual practices that draw upon tantric techniques of body control but do not involve any of tantra's cultural or iconographic symbolism; intended to promote birth control, equality for women, and marital pleasure and fidelity. Full definition →
Italian carezza