ejaculation
/iˌdʒækjuˈleɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.92 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of ejecting or suddenly throwing fluid or some other substance from a duct or other body structure.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The act of ejecting or suddenly throwing fluid or some other substance from a duct or other body structure.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The act of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight.
Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable
noun
The uttering of a short, sudden exclamation or prayer, or the exclamation or prayer uttered.
Countable; Dated; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Dehiscence, or Ejaculation of Pollen or Seed.— The pollen of plants is the fecundating power, and consists of a number of small sacs, invisible to the naked eye, in which a fluid exists, which is analogous to the spermatic fluid in man and animals."
- "The spermatophores begin to ejaculate immediately after leaving the penis and the whole process is completed in a very few seconds. Pulling the filament attached to the ejaculatory end of a spermatophore is all that is needed to start its ejaculation."
- "The moment of ejaculation in mammiferous animals is accompanied by universal excitement of the whole body, a kind of slight convulsion, which terminates in a comatose or exstatic state."
- "By repeating this process several times before ejaculation and by practicing this procedure, the man will learn to control his ejaculation."
- "In all my life I had never seen a woman discharge like that. Not only did she shoot out fuck like a man, but she accompanied her ejaculation with such furious cries, such energetic blasphemy, and such violent spasms, that one would have thought she was having an epileptic fit […] [Translation of the Marquis de Sade's Histoire de Juliette, IX:428.]"
- "One of the most challenging of male sexual disorders is that of delayed ejaculation (DE). The man who cannot readily ejaculate either alone or, most typically, with a partner, feels thwarted, anxious, and sexually incompetent."
Etymology
From French éjaculation, borrowed from Latin ēiaculārī.
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /iˌdʒækjuˈleɪʃən/