self-pleasing

adjective

That pleases oneself; given over only to one's own pleasure.

Meanings

adjectiveself-pleasing (comparative more self-pleasing, superlative most self-pleasing)

comparative more self-pleasing · superlative most self-pleasing

  1. That pleases oneself; given over only to one's own pleasure.

    This, once again, is the art of introspection and stubborn, self-pleasing originality.

    2005, The Guardian, editorial, 6 Oct 2005
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    With such self-pleasing thoughts her wound she fed, / And thought so to beguile her grievous smart […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
nounself-pleasing (uncountable)
  1. euphemisticuncountablemasturbation

    Imagining the neighbors could be doing the same will automatically add new potency to your self-pleasing.

    2012, Robin Westen, The 12-Minute Sex Solution, page 43
    1 more example

    Even today, the thought is "good girls don't, but good boys do." The reality is, girls, like boys, are curious about their bodies and may experiment with self-pleasing.

    2008, Moira McCarthy, The Everything Guide to Raising Adolescent Girls, page 162

Origin

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