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Titillation   /tˌɪtɪlˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
titillation  n.  
1.
The act of tickling, or the state of being tickled; a tickling sensation.
2.
Any pleasurable sensation. "Those titillations that reach no higher than the senses."





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"Titillation" Quotes from Famous Books



... agony must last longer than three months. Uneasiness, corresponding to the irritations of dressing a stump—may continue a year longer; a few victims of the habit outlive a certain opium-prurience, which has also its analogue in the occasional titillation of a healed wound—these are comparatively tolerable; but, if we expect to save a patient's life, we must not protract an agony which so absolutely interferes with normal sleep as that of the opium-eater's for longer than three months in the case ...
— The Opium Habit • Horace B. Day
... the wine in question, and gone forth, on the back of these dilutions, into a sultry, sparkling noontide, he will have felt an influence almost as genial, although strangely grosser, than this fairy titillation of the nerves among the snow and sunshine of the Alps. That also is a mode, we need not say of intoxication, but of insobriety. Thus also a man walks in a strong sunshine of the mind, and follows smiling, insubstantial meditations. And whether he be really so clever or so strong as he supposes, ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... on this part of the drive that I decided at last I was learning real mountain-driving. To confess the truth, for delicious titillation of one's nerve, I have since driven over no mountain road that was worse, or better, rather, than ...
— The Human Drift • Jack London
... her so; How delighted to teaze her you seem; Titillation is dangerous, I know, And may cause ...
— Poetic Sketches • Thomas Gent
... got off, so to speak. Showy women and show-off men. Mrs. Gronauer, in a full length mink coat that enveloped her like a squaw, a titillation of diamond aigrettes in her Titianed hair and an aftermath of scent as tangible as the trail of a wounded shark, emerged from the elevator ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various


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