MASTURBATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does masturbation mean? 

• MASTURBATION (noun)
  The noun MASTURBATION has 1 sense:

1. manual stimulation of the genital organs (of yourself or another) for sexual pleasure

  Familiarity information: MASTURBATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MASTURBATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Manual stimulation of the genital organs (of yourself or another) for sexual pleasure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

masturbation; onanism

Hypernyms ("masturbation" is a kind of...):

autoeroticism; autoerotism (using you own body as a sexual object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "masturbation"):

self-abuse; self-stimulation (manual stimulation of your own genital organ for sexual pleasure)

frottage (masturbation by rubbing against another person (as in a crowd))

hand job; jacking off; jerking off; wank (slang for masturbation)

Derivation:

masturbate (get sexual gratification through self-stimulation)

masturbate (stimulate sexually)

 Context examples 

A response about an individual's erections being firm enough for masturbation and foreplay only.

(Firm Enough for Masturbation and Foreplay Only, NCI Thesaurus)