ticklishness

Example Sentences

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But her team’s new findings suggest that the PAG, and specifically its lateral columns, is required for play and ticklishness.

From Scientific American • Jul. 28, 2023

One of the fascinating things about ticklishness is that it is so mood-dependent, Ishiyama says.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 10, 2016

If that's the case, then adult ticklishness might be the useless by-product of a trait that evolved for the benefit of infants.

From Slate • Mar. 12, 2010

"That ticklishness may represent pain is suggested by the observation that pressure over a diseased organ may elicit laughter in a hyposensitive patient instead of pain."

From Time Magazine Archive

We may well believe that in this early developed reflex activity we have the basis of that somewhat more complex ticklishness which appears somewhat later.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Ellis, Havelock