titillation

T1I1T1I1L1L1A1T1I1O1N1

noun

A pleasurable or sexually exciting sensation.

UncommonScrabble 11

Meanings

nountitillation (countable and uncountable, plural titillations)

plural titillations

  1. countableuncountableA pleasurable or sexually exciting sensation.
    1 more example

    there feeling, and most gently indeed, squeezing those tender globular reservoirs; the magic touch took instant effect, quicken'd, and brought on upon the spur the symptoms of that sweet agony, the melting moment of dissolution, when pleasure dies by pleasure, and the mysterious engine of it overcomes the titillation it has rais'd in those parts, by plying them with the stream of a warm liquid that is itself the highest of all titillations

    Fanny Hill

    1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC
  2. countableuncountableThe process or outcome of titillating.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounthe act of tickling

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Latintitillatio
  2. Latintitillatio
  3. Englishtitillation

Borrowed from Latin tītillātiō, tītillātiōnem.

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Translations

Bulgarian задоволство, възбуждане
  • задоволство (zadovolstvo)a pleasurable sensation
  • възбуждане (văzbuždane)a pleasurable sensation
German Erregung, Kitzel
  • Erregunga pleasurable sensation
  • Kitzela pleasurable sensation
Māori pakara
  • pakaraa pleasurable sensation
Polish łechtanie, pobudzenie
  • łechtaniea pleasurable sensation
  • pobudzeniea pleasurable sensation
  • podnieceniea pleasurable sensation
Cite this entry
APA

titillation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/titillation

MLA

“titillation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/titillation. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “titillation,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/titillation.

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