onanism
- noun
- /ˈoʊnəˌnɪzəm/
- NSFW
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masturbación
- In fact, this story is where 19th-century Victorians got their term for masturbation: onanism.
Examples
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Masturbation, known as onanism, was included, and so also were nocturnal pollution, anal or oral sex, pornography, harlotry, homosexuality, and more.
Academic text (2003) -
These ideas were foregrounded in medical literature as much as in erotica; specifically and best known is Samuel-Auguste Tissot's treatise Onanism, or a Physical Dissertation on the Illnesses.
Academic text (2015) -
It's where we get the word "onanism" from, which is a fancy word for masturbating.
Blog text (19) -
Genesis later confronts us with the sin of onanism, the violation of Jacob's daughter Dinah, the filling of Isaac's wells with earth by the Philistines, plus, of course, the rise and fall of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Academic text (2009) -
Onanism involves manual stimulation of the genitals for sexual pleasure.
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Many people view onanism as a normal part of human sexuality.
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Experts say that onanism can be a healthy way to explore one's body.
Synonyms
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Touching your own or someone else's private parts to feel sexual pleasure
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The act of touching your own private parts for sexual pleasure
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Sexual pleasure you give yourself by touching your body
To touch your own private parts to get sexual pleasure
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
onanism = Onan (opaque) = onan + ism
The generalized sexual meaning (masturbation) is historically derived from the biblical reference and semantic shift, which an average learner cannot infer from form alone.
Etymology
Onanism comes from the Bible character Onan, who 'spilled his seed' on the ground, and over time the story led people to use the word for self-stimulation or masturbation as well.