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noun

orgasm n. (Physiol.)

Eager or immoderate excitement or action; the state of turgescence of any organ; erethism.

Especially: The peak of the physical pleasurable sexual excitement caused by stimulation of the sexual organs, as in intercourse; in the male, it is usually accompanied by ejaculation.

Hence: An eruption of intense, uncontrolled excitement; used of groups and individuals.

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Etymology of 'Orgasm'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Orgasm" Quotes from Famous Books

... meant the production of the venereal orgasm, with or without emission, by any means other than the natural ...

— The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • W. Grant Hague

... upon the brain; it confirms its texture, strengthens the vessels, and gives a freedom to the blood and spirit enclosing them.... When applied after the greatest fury and passion, it never fails to allay the orgasm of the animal spirits, and sweetly compose 'em.... The distemper will be soon discharged, and I have known it frequently to produce a cure in the space of one month." He tells the reader he has had L10 a quart for it, ...

— Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles • Daniel Hack Tuke

... morosa voluptas of the Catholic divines. The Sapphist described in the text would procure an orgasm (in gloria, as the Italians call it) by biting and rolling over the girl she loved; but by loosening the trouser-string she evidently aims at a closer tribadism ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7 • Richard F. Burton

... obscure for the unpracticed dream interpreter. But this symbolic gratification, which would have insured undisturbed sleep, was not sufficient for the powerful libidinous excitement. The excitement leads to an orgasm, and thus the whole stairway symbolism is unmasked as a substitute for coitus. Freud lays stress on the rhythmical character of both actions as one of the reasons for the sexual utilization of the stairway symbolism, and this dream especially ...

— Dream Psychology - Psychoanalysis for Beginners • Sigmund Freud

... with a most delicate cuticle, and are filled with highly sensitive nerves. As the act progresses, these glands become more and more sensitized, and nervously surcharged, until, as a climax, they finally cause a sort of nervous explosion of the organs involved. This climax is called an "orgasm" in scientific language. Among most men and women it is spoken ...

— Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living • H.W. Long