contrectation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

"Most animals have no desire for contrectation. In man the impulse of contrectation is the more important."
"Not to spoil his pleasure she allowed him the most intimate contrectations, stopping short only at cunnilingus."
"[W]e frequently meet with pubescent boys in whom the contrectation impulse, or the psychic component of sex, appears in isolated form."

Learned borrowing from Latin contrectātio, from contrectō (“to touch”).

contrectations (plural)

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Learned borrowing from Latin contrectātio, from contrectō (“to touch”).

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