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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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... laughed in spite of herself. In spite of herself she was shaken into a convulsion of laughter. Louis was masterful—he mastered her psyche. She laughed till her head lay helpless on the chair, she could not move. Helpless, inert she lay, in her orgasm of laughter. The end of Mr. ...

— The Lost Girl • D. H. Lawrence

... child to grasp a part of another person (generally the ear) for the same purpose. The pleasure-sucking is connected with an entire exhaustion of attention and leads to sleep or even to a motor reaction in the form of an orgasm.[10] Pleasure-sucking is often combined with a rubbing contact with certain sensitive parts of the body, such as the breast and external genitals. It is by this road that many children go from thumb-sucking ...

— Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex • Sigmund Freud

... 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

... 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

... 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 of ...

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