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/tˈɪtəlˌeɪtɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Titillate v. t. & v. i. (past & past part. titillated; pres. part. titillating)

To tickle; as, to titillate the nose with a feather. "The pungent grains of titillating dust."

To arouse an agreeable sensation in; as, to titillate one's imagination; to titillate one's audience; to titillate the senses.

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Etymology of 'Titillating'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Titillating" Quotes from Famous Books

... friends, I remember distinctly now all about it," continued the captain, as he returned the kerchief and shook a few specks of the titillating dust from his point-lace sleeve; "it is about three years ago, just before you came to live with me, padre, that we fell in with a large ship bound to Porto Rico. She had been disabled in an awful hurricane, which had taken two of her masts clean off at the decks, and was leaking badly. We, ...

— Captain Brand of the "Centipede" • H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

... question hummed in his brain as he walked about. There were such infinite varieties of things to do, such a multitude of people doing them. To some men this reflection brings despair or bewilderment; to Harry (as indeed Lord Southend would have expected from his observation of him) it was a titillating evidence of great opportunities, stirring his mind to a busy consideration of chances. Thus then it seemed as though Blent might fall into the background, his loved Blent. Perhaps his not thinking of it had begun ...

— Tristram of Blent - An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House • Anthony Hope