English words for 'Relating to self-stimulation.'
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verb
noun
- (rare, Ireland, chiefly in the negative) A whit or jot; the least amount.
- (slang) Synonym of stimulant (“drug”).
- (informal, uncountable) Sensory stimulation.
- (pharmacology, obstetrics, countable) Any drug that stimulates a woman's ovaries to produce eggs.
- (psychology, autism) Any repetitive self-stimulatory behavior (e.g. hand flapping, head banging, repeating noises or words), frequent in autistic people.
adj
verb
noun
- The act of innervating or stimulating.
- Special activity excited in any part of the nervous system or in any organ of sense or motion; the nervous influence necessary for the maintenance of life, and the functions of the various organs.
- The distribution of nerves in an animal, or to any of its parts.
- the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland
- the distribution of nerve fibers to an organ or body region
verb
- direct energy or urges into useful activities
- remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation
- vaporize and then condense right back again
- make more subtle or refined
- change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting
- (chemistry) Of a substance: to change from a solid into a gas without passing through the liquid state, with or without being heated.
- (figurative) Synonym of sublime (“to become higher in quality or status; to improve”).
- (figurative) To raise something to a state of excellence; to improve.
- (also figurative) To raise (someone) to a high office or status; to dignify, to elevate, to exalt.
- (figurative, psychoanalysis) To modify (the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct) in a socially acceptable manner; to divert the energy of (such an instinct) into some acceptable activity.
- (chiefly passive voice) To change (a substance) from a gas into a solid through sublimation.
- (figurative, psychoanalysis) To modify the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct in a socially acceptable manner; to divert the energy of such an instinct into some acceptable activity.
- (figurative) To refine (something) until it disappears or loses all meaning.
- (chemistry) Of a substance: to change from a gas into a solid without passing through the liquid state.
- (generally) To change (a solid substance) into a gas without breaking down or passing through the liquid state by heating it gently.
adj
noun
adj
noun
- A person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as precognition, clairvoyance, and telepathy, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influences.
- (Gnosticism) In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the second type; a person focused on intellectual reality (the other two being hylic and pneumatic).
- (parapsychology) A person who supposedly contacts the dead; a medium.
- a person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception
noun
- arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity
- (theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings
- a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem
- the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
- a product of your creative thinking and work
- arousing to a particular emotion or action
- The act or process of an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.
- (countable) A single inward breath (intake of air).
- (physiology, uncountable) The drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm, as part of the act of breathing.
- A new idea, especially one which arises suddenly and is clever or creative.
- A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies people to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.
- A person, object, or situation which quickens or stimulates an influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.
noun
- Anything that impels; a stimulating factor.
- The force or energy associated with a moving body; a stimulus.
- An activity in response to a stimulus.
- A force, either internal or external, that impels; an impulse.
- (history, medieval physics) A principle of motive force, held as equivalent to weight times velocity by John Buridan, in an auxiliary theory of Aristotelian dynamics introduced by John Philoponus, describing projectile motion against gravity as linear until it transitions to a vertical drop and the intellectual precursor to the concepts of inertia, momentum and acceleration in classical mechanics.
- the act of applying force suddenly
- a force that moves something along
noun
- An activity causing excitement or pleasure; the act of stimulating.
- (biology) Any action or condition that creates a response; sensory input. [from 18th c.]
- A pushing or goading toward action. [from 16th c.]
- any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action
- mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse
- the act of arousing an organism to action
- (physiology) the effect of a stimulus (on nerves or organs etc.)
noun
- an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
- someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
- the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
- a state of widespread public excitement and interest
- a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest
- A widespread reaction of interest or excitement.
- A physical feeling or perception from something that comes into contact with the body; something sensed.
- (psychology, physiology) Excitation of sensory organs.
verb
noun
noun
verb
verb
- To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.
- To develop, to come about or intensify.
- To attain a higher status.
- Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
- To become perceptible to the senses (other than sight).
- To move upwards.
- (music) To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
- (figurative) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
- To slope upward.
- To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
- To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
- To leave one's bed; to get up.
- (of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
- To come; to offer itself.
- To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
- (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
- To become erect; to assume an upright position.
- To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
- (of a river) To have its source (in a particular place).
- To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
- (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
- (figurative) To be resurrected.
- rise in rank or status
- come up, of celestial bodies
- rise to one's feet
- go up or advance
- become more extreme
- become heartened or elated
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- move to a better position in life or to a better job
- get up and out of bed
- come to the surface
- take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
- move upward
- return from the dead
- exert oneself to meet a challenge
- increase in value or to a higher point
- rise up
- increase in volume
noun
- An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
- (chiefly UK, also Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa) An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, rest of Commonwealth, sometimes Canada) Ellipsis of pay rise (“an increase in wage or salary”).
- The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
- The front of a diaper.
- (informal) A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.
- (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
- Alternative form of rice (“twig”).
- The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
- The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
- (architecture) The height of an arch or a step.
- a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
- a growth in strength or number or importance
- the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
- the act of changing location in an upward direction
- an increase in cost
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- increase in price or value
- a movement upward; rise above the ground
- the amount a salary is increased
- (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
verb
- To put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse.
- To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be excited or roused.
- To inspire or stimulate (an action, a feeling, etc.).
- (rare) To inspire or stimulate.
- To stimulate or assist the fermentation of (an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.).
- (transitive, rare) To apply quicksilver (mercury) to (something); to combine (something) with quicksilver; to quicksilver.
- To grow bright; to brighten.
- Of an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.: to ferment.
- (also figuratively) Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move.
- To give life; to make alive.
- To make (something) quicker or faster; to hasten, speed up.
- (literary, also figuratively) To give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead); to animate, to resurrect, to revive.
- To come back to life, to receive life.
- (intransitive) To become quicker or faster.
- show signs of life
- give new life or energy to
- make keen or more acute
- move faster
- give life or energy to
noun
- (chiefly Midlands (northern), Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) Synonym of couch grass (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also (chiefly in the plural), the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses.
- (chiefly Ireland, Northern England) In full quicken tree: the European rowan, rowan, or mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia).
verb
noun
noun
- stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors
- an electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current
- an act that sets in motion some course of events
- a formal entry into an organization or position or office
- reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
- the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time)
- An act of inducting.
- (mathematics) A method of proof of a theorem by first proving it for a specific case (often an integer; usually 0 or 1) and showing that, if it is true for one case then it must be true for the next.
- (embryology) Given a group of cells that emits or displays a substance, the influence of this substance on the fate of a second group of cells.
- (logic) Derivation of general principles from specific instances.
- (mechanical engineering) The delivery of air to the cylinders of an internal combustion piston engine.
- The process of showing a newcomer around a place where they will work or study.
- (theater) Use of rumors to twist and complicate the plot of a play or to narrate in a way that does not have to state truth nor fact within the play.
- A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.
- An act of inducing.
- (physics) Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field.
- (medicine) The process of inducing labour for the childbirth process.
verb
- get sexual gratification through self-stimulation
- be lazy or idle
- leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
- To leave unexpectedly.
- To abandon.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fuck, off.
- To go to hell; to disappear or go away; to screw oneself.
- To fritter; to fuck around.
- To annoy, irritate.
intj
verb
- get sexual gratification through self-stimulation
- (transitive, vulgar) To deceive.
- (ambitransitive, vulgar) To manually stimulate someone else's penis; to give a hand job.
- (ambitransitive, vulgar) To masturbate by manually stimulating one's own penis.
- (intransitive, vulgar) To do nothing; to waste time.
noun
verb
- get sexual gratification through self-stimulation
- stimulate sexually
- (transitive, colloquial) To manually or by other means than one's own genitals stimulate someone else's genitals sexually.
- (informal, derogatory) To stimulate or please oneself by means of anything, not necessarily sexual, that does not get them anywhere; something that wastes their time; something that does not help others or achieve any important goal.
- (intransitive) To stimulate oneself sexually, especially by use of one’s hand or a sex toy made for this purpose, often to the point of ejaculation or orgasm.
verb
noun
- slang for masturbation
- (uncountable, slang, vulgar) Nonsense, rubbish.
- (countable, uncountable, fandom slang) Drama, turmoil, or disagreement within a fannish space.
- (uncountable, chiefly vulgar, fandom slang and Internet slang) Ridiculous, circular or inappropriately elaborate argument about something, especially if obnoxious, pretentious or unsubstantial.
- (countable, slang, vulgar, derogatory) An undesirable person.
- (countable, slang, vulgar) An act of masturbation.
adj
noun
noun
- The act of innervating or stimulating.
- Special activity excited in any part of the nervous system or in any organ of sense or motion; the nervous influence necessary for the maintenance of life, and the functions of the various organs.
- The distribution of nerves in an animal, or to any of its parts.
- the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland
- the distribution of nerve fibers to an organ or body region
noun
- arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity
- (theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings
- a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem
- the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
- a product of your creative thinking and work
- arousing to a particular emotion or action
- The act or process of an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.
- (countable) A single inward breath (intake of air).
- (physiology, uncountable) The drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm, as part of the act of breathing.
- A new idea, especially one which arises suddenly and is clever or creative.
- A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies people to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.
- A person, object, or situation which quickens or stimulates an influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.
noun
- Anything that impels; a stimulating factor.
- The force or energy associated with a moving body; a stimulus.
- An activity in response to a stimulus.
- A force, either internal or external, that impels; an impulse.
- (history, medieval physics) A principle of motive force, held as equivalent to weight times velocity by John Buridan, in an auxiliary theory of Aristotelian dynamics introduced by John Philoponus, describing projectile motion against gravity as linear until it transitions to a vertical drop and the intellectual precursor to the concepts of inertia, momentum and acceleration in classical mechanics.
- the act of applying force suddenly
- a force that moves something along
noun
- An activity causing excitement or pleasure; the act of stimulating.
- (biology) Any action or condition that creates a response; sensory input. [from 18th c.]
- A pushing or goading toward action. [from 16th c.]
- any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action
- mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse
- the act of arousing an organism to action
- (physiology) the effect of a stimulus (on nerves or organs etc.)
noun
- an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
- someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
- the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
- a state of widespread public excitement and interest
- a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest
- A widespread reaction of interest or excitement.
- A physical feeling or perception from something that comes into contact with the body; something sensed.
- (psychology, physiology) Excitation of sensory organs.
noun
verb
noun
- stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors
- an electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current
- an act that sets in motion some course of events
- a formal entry into an organization or position or office
- reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
- the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time)
- An act of inducting.
- (mathematics) A method of proof of a theorem by first proving it for a specific case (often an integer; usually 0 or 1) and showing that, if it is true for one case then it must be true for the next.
- (embryology) Given a group of cells that emits or displays a substance, the influence of this substance on the fate of a second group of cells.
- (logic) Derivation of general principles from specific instances.
- (mechanical engineering) The delivery of air to the cylinders of an internal combustion piston engine.
- The process of showing a newcomer around a place where they will work or study.
- (theater) Use of rumors to twist and complicate the plot of a play or to narrate in a way that does not have to state truth nor fact within the play.
- A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.
- An act of inducing.
- (physics) Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field.
- (medicine) The process of inducing labour for the childbirth process.
verb
noun
- (rare, Ireland, chiefly in the negative) A whit or jot; the least amount.
- (slang) Synonym of stimulant (“drug”).
- (informal, uncountable) Sensory stimulation.
- (pharmacology, obstetrics, countable) Any drug that stimulates a woman's ovaries to produce eggs.
- (psychology, autism) Any repetitive self-stimulatory behavior (e.g. hand flapping, head banging, repeating noises or words), frequent in autistic people.
verb
- direct energy or urges into useful activities
- remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation
- vaporize and then condense right back again
- make more subtle or refined
- change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting
- (chemistry) Of a substance: to change from a solid into a gas without passing through the liquid state, with or without being heated.
- (figurative) Synonym of sublime (“to become higher in quality or status; to improve”).
- (figurative) To raise something to a state of excellence; to improve.
- (also figurative) To raise (someone) to a high office or status; to dignify, to elevate, to exalt.
- (figurative, psychoanalysis) To modify (the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct) in a socially acceptable manner; to divert the energy of (such an instinct) into some acceptable activity.
- (chiefly passive voice) To change (a substance) from a gas into a solid through sublimation.
- (figurative, psychoanalysis) To modify the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct in a socially acceptable manner; to divert the energy of such an instinct into some acceptable activity.
- (figurative) To refine (something) until it disappears or loses all meaning.
- (chemistry) Of a substance: to change from a gas into a solid without passing through the liquid state.
- (generally) To change (a solid substance) into a gas without breaking down or passing through the liquid state by heating it gently.
adj
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.
- To develop, to come about or intensify.
- To attain a higher status.
- Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
- To become perceptible to the senses (other than sight).
- To move upwards.
- (music) To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
- (figurative) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
- To slope upward.
- To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
- To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
- To leave one's bed; to get up.
- (of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
- To come; to offer itself.
- To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
- (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
- To become erect; to assume an upright position.
- To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
- (of a river) To have its source (in a particular place).
- To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
- (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
- (figurative) To be resurrected.
- rise in rank or status
- come up, of celestial bodies
- rise to one's feet
- go up or advance
- become more extreme
- become heartened or elated
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- move to a better position in life or to a better job
- get up and out of bed
- come to the surface
- take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
- move upward
- return from the dead
- exert oneself to meet a challenge
- increase in value or to a higher point
- rise up
- increase in volume
noun
- An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
- (chiefly UK, also Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa) An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, rest of Commonwealth, sometimes Canada) Ellipsis of pay rise (“an increase in wage or salary”).
- The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
- The front of a diaper.
- (informal) A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.
- (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
- Alternative form of rice (“twig”).
- The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
- The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
- (architecture) The height of an arch or a step.
- a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
- a growth in strength or number or importance
- the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
- the act of changing location in an upward direction
- an increase in cost
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- increase in price or value
- a movement upward; rise above the ground
- the amount a salary is increased
- (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
verb
- To put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse.
- To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be excited or roused.
- To inspire or stimulate (an action, a feeling, etc.).
- (rare) To inspire or stimulate.
- To stimulate or assist the fermentation of (an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.).
- (transitive, rare) To apply quicksilver (mercury) to (something); to combine (something) with quicksilver; to quicksilver.
- To grow bright; to brighten.
- Of an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.: to ferment.
- (also figuratively) Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move.
- To give life; to make alive.
- To make (something) quicker or faster; to hasten, speed up.
- (literary, also figuratively) To give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead); to animate, to resurrect, to revive.
- To come back to life, to receive life.
- (intransitive) To become quicker or faster.
- show signs of life
- give new life or energy to
- make keen or more acute
- move faster
- give life or energy to
noun
- (chiefly Midlands (northern), Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) Synonym of couch grass (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also (chiefly in the plural), the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses.
- (chiefly Ireland, Northern England) In full quicken tree: the European rowan, rowan, or mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia).
verb
noun
verb
- get sexual gratification through self-stimulation
- be lazy or idle
- leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
- To leave unexpectedly.
- To abandon.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fuck, off.
- To go to hell; to disappear or go away; to screw oneself.
- To fritter; to fuck around.
- To annoy, irritate.
intj
verb
- get sexual gratification through self-stimulation
- (transitive, vulgar) To deceive.
- (ambitransitive, vulgar) To manually stimulate someone else's penis; to give a hand job.
- (ambitransitive, vulgar) To masturbate by manually stimulating one's own penis.
- (intransitive, vulgar) To do nothing; to waste time.
noun
verb
- get sexual gratification through self-stimulation
- stimulate sexually
- (transitive, colloquial) To manually or by other means than one's own genitals stimulate someone else's genitals sexually.
- (informal, derogatory) To stimulate or please oneself by means of anything, not necessarily sexual, that does not get them anywhere; something that wastes their time; something that does not help others or achieve any important goal.
- (intransitive) To stimulate oneself sexually, especially by use of one’s hand or a sex toy made for this purpose, often to the point of ejaculation or orgasm.
verb
noun
- slang for masturbation
- (uncountable, slang, vulgar) Nonsense, rubbish.
- (countable, uncountable, fandom slang) Drama, turmoil, or disagreement within a fannish space.
- (uncountable, chiefly vulgar, fandom slang and Internet slang) Ridiculous, circular or inappropriately elaborate argument about something, especially if obnoxious, pretentious or unsubstantial.
- (countable, slang, vulgar, derogatory) An undesirable person.
- (countable, slang, vulgar) An act of masturbation.
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verb
adj
noun
- A person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as precognition, clairvoyance, and telepathy, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influences.
- (Gnosticism) In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the second type; a person focused on intellectual reality (the other two being hylic and pneumatic).
- (parapsychology) A person who supposedly contacts the dead; a medium.
- a person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception