masturbation
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masturbation
- /ˌmæstəˈbeɪʃ(ə)n/ UK
- /ˌmɑːstəˈbeɪʃ(ə)n/ UK
- /ˌmæstɚˈbeɪʃən/ US
Rhymes with -eɪʃən
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Borrowed from French masturbation, New Latin masturbātiō, masturbātiōnem. By surface analysis, masturbat(e) + -ion.
noun masturbations
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Sexual stimulation of one's genitalia or other erotic regions, often to the point of orgasm.
Diogenes in sight of all, exercising his Masturbation, bred a longing desire in the bystanders, that in such sort they might fill their bellies by rubbing or clawing the same.
Similar: onanism, self-abuse
- The stimulation of another person's genitals using the hands.
- A vain activity that serves only to provide self-indulgent satisfaction without any practical or external value. That experimental film was nothing more than intellectual masturbation for the director.
Similar: beat one's meat, celebrating Palm Sunday, choking the chicken, ham shank, hand shandy, Hand Solo, ipsation, jacking off, jerking off, lone rangering, manustupration, mastupration, masturbation, milking the sausage, onanism, peeling the cucumber, pocket pool, polishing the jewels, romancing the bone, secret vice, self-abuse, self-defilement, self-love, self-pleasure, self-pollution, shaking hands with the milkman, shaking out the curtains, solipsism, solitary vice, spanking the monkey
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: onanism, self-abuse, manustupration, cleaning, ipsism, self-pleasure, self-gratification, self-stimulation, self-love, beating off, diddling, fingering, autoeroticism, solo sex, jerking off, jacking off
noun
Similar: beat one's meat, celebrating Palm Sunday, choking the chicken, ham shank, hand shandy, Hand Solo, ipsation, jacking off, jerking off, lone rangering, manustupration, mastupration, masturbation, milking the sausage, onanism, peeling the cucumber, pocket pool, polishing the jewels, romancing the bone, secret vice, self-abuse, self-defilement, self-love, self-pleasure, self-pollution, shaking hands with the milkman, shaking out the curtains, solipsism, solitary vice, spanking the monkey
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noun manual erotic stimulation of the genitals
| Español | masturbación, paja, onanismo, chaqueta |
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| 한국어 | 마스터베이션 maseuteobeisyeon, 자위 jawi, 딸딸이 ttalttari, 수음 sueum, 자위행위 jawihaeng'wi |
| 日本語 | マスターベーション masutābēshon, オナニー onanī, 自慰 jii, 手淫 shuin, 一人エッチ hitori etchi, せんずり senzuri |
| 中文 | 手淫 shǒuyín, 自慰 zìwèi, 自瀆 /自渎 zìdú, 自淫 zìyín |
| हिन्दी | हस्तमैथुन hastamaithun |
| Kiswahili | punyeto |
| Português | masturbação, punheta |
| Français | masturbation, onanisme, manualisation, branlette |
| Deutsch | Masturbation, Onanie, Selbstbefriedigung |
| Italiano | masturbazione |
| Ελληνικά | αυνανισμός avnanismós, μαλακία malakía |
| Română | masturbație, masturbare, onanie |
| Русский | мастурба́ция masturbácija, онани́зм onanízm, рукоблу́дие rukoblúdije, дро́чка dróčka |
| Tiếng Việt | sự thủ dâm |
| العربية | عَادَة سِرِّيَّة ʕāda sirriyya, اِسْتِمْنَاء istimnāʔ |
| עברית | אוֹנָנוּת onanút |
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title = {masturbation},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/masturbation},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
