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Titillating   /tˈɪtəlˌeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Titillating

adjective
1.
Pleasantly and superficially exciting.
2.
Giving sexual pleasure; sexually arousing.  Synonym: erotic.
3.
Exciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements.  Synonyms: tickling, tingling.



Titillate

verb
(past & past part. titillated; pres. part. titillating)
1.
Touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements.  Synonyms: tickle, vellicate.
2.
Excite pleasurably or erotically.






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"Titillating" Quotes from Famous Books



... supper" with the Cooneys, as agreed, on the Thursday following the magic afternoon at Willie's apartment. The week intervening had been, as it chanced, one of the most interesting and titillating periods of her life; by the same token, never had family duty seemed more drearily superfluous. However, this periodic, say quarterly, mark of kinsman's comity was required of her by her father, a clannish man by inheritance, and one who, feeling unable to "do" anything especial ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison



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