titillating
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8.6
- adjective
- /ˈtɪtɪˌleɪtɪŋ/
- NSFW
- The art exhibit featured titillating pieces that sparked conversations about intimacy and desire.
Examples
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Oh God, you're very titillating, aren't you?
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Baudelaire recommends these images not for any titillating aspects but because they have the power to act as talismans to open dream worlds to the viewer.
Academic text (1997) -
But, of course, having you in the shower will make it all that more, well, titillating.
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It is horrifying, but it is also titillating and it is also inspiring and it is also nerve racking.
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Santa Marta la Dominadora, by Hochi Asiatico -- titillating and pornographic.
Academic text (2010) -
Victoria plum, like a flag of victory, but the bum is arching up in the air, so provocative, titillating, and proudly arched!
Fiction book (1998) -
The novel was filled with titillating details that kept readers eagerly turning the pages.
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Many found the film's titillating themes to be both entertaining and provocative.
Synonyms
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4.1
Attractive in a way that makes people feel sexual interest
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6.5
Causing sexual desire or showing sexual interest
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7.2
Tends to make people feel sexual interest by being suggestive
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4.9
Attractive and likely to make you want something
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6.3
Very attractive in a way that makes you want it but you cannot have it
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9.9
Too interested in sex in a way that makes people uncomfortable
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7.7
A little impolite because it talks about sex, often in a funny or daring way
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5.4
To make other people want to have sex
Antonyms
How Arousing
- Offensive
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7.2
- NSFW
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6.5
- NSFW
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8.6
- Offensive
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6.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word titillating comes from the Latin titillare, which means 'to tickle' and is like the everyday word tickle. A helpful way to remember it is that something titillating 'tickles' private feelings, so it makes a person feel sexually excited.