Meanings
plural titillations
- 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 - countableuncountableThe process or outcome of titillating.
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latintitillatio
- Latintitillatio
- Englishtitillation
Borrowed from Latin tītillātiō, tītillātiōnem.
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →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
titillation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/titillation
“titillation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/titillation. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “titillation,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/titillation.
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