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titillation
[tit-l-eyt] 
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titillation
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tickling |
| Synonyms: | arousal, excitement, exhilaration, stimulation, thrill |
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| Main Entry: | excitement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm; incitement |
| Synonyms: | action, activity, ado, adventure, agitation, animation, bother, buzz*, commotion, confusion, discomposure, disturbance, dither, drama, elation, emotion, excitation, feeling, ferment, fever, flurry, frenzy, furor, fuss, heat*, hubbub, hullabaloo*, hurry, hysteria, impulse, instigation, intoxication, kicks, melodrama, motivation, motive, movement, passion, perturbation, provocation, rage, stimulation, stimulus, stir, thrill, titillation, to-do, trepidation, tumult, turmoil, urge, warmth, wildness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, boredom, calm, calmness, dullness, lull, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | feeling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sensation, especially of touch |
| Synonyms: | activity, awareness, consciousness, enjoyment, excitability, excitation, excitement, feel, innervation, motility, motor response, pain, perceiving, perception, pleasure, reaction, receptivity, reflex, responsiveness, sense, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, tactility, tangibility, titillation |
| Antonyms: | insensibility, numbness, unconsciousness |
| Main Entry: | pleasure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | delight, happiness |
| Synonyms: | amusement, bliss, buzz*, comfort, contentment, delectation, diversion, ease, enjoyment, entertainment, felicity, flash*, fruition, game, gladness, gluttony, gratification, gusto, hobby, indulgence, joie de vivre, joy, joyride, kick*, kicks, luxury, primrose path, recreation, relish, revelry, satisfaction, seasoning, self-indulgence, solace, spice, thrill, titillation, turn-on, velvet*, zest |
| Antonyms: | gloom, melancholy, pain, sadness, sorrow, trouble, unhappiness, worry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thrill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sudden excitement |
| Synonyms: | adventure, bang*, blast, charge*, circus, fireworks, flash*, flush*, fun, good feeling, inspiration, kicks, lift*, pleasure, refreshment, response, sensation, stimulation, tingle*, titillation, turn-on, twitter*, upper, wallop |
| Antonyms: | calm, depression |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tickling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tickle |
| Synonyms: | caressing, stroking, titillation |
| Main Entry: | stimulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | provocation |
| Synonyms: | incentive, incitement, invigoration, piquancy, refreshment, stimulant, titillation, tittivation |
| Antonyms: | discouragement |
| Main Entry: | erotism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire |
| Synonyms: | amativeness, amorousness, arousal, concupiscence, eroticism, libidinousness, lust, lustfulness, passion, prurience, pruriency, titillation |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | excitement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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hurry, afflated, agacant, agonizing, appetizing, astir, boiling, boisterous, burning, chafing, clamorous, delirious, demoniac, demoniacal, demonstrative, distracted, ebullient, effervescent, electric, entheal, enthusiastic, estuous, excitable, excited, exciting, fanatical, febrile, fervid, feverish, fidgety, fidgin, fiery, fisselig, flaming, flushed, foaming, fuming, furious, fussy, glowing, gomphipothic, haggard, hasty, hot, hurried, impassioned, impatient, impetuous, imposing, impulsive, inextinguishable, intolerant, irrepressible, irritable, kedge, lost, mad, madcap, magazinish, mercurial, mettlesome, moody, overpowering, overwhelming, passionate, piquant, provocative, rabid, raging, rampant, raving, restless, rouncy, seething, sensational, simmering, sirenic, skittish, sparkling, spicy, stanchless, startlish, swelling, tantalizing, telling, tempestuous, thrilling, tumultuous, turbulent, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unquiet, unroarious, up, vehement, violent, volcanic, warm, wild
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