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SELF-STIMULATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does self-stimulation mean?
• SELF-STIMULATION (noun)
The noun SELF-STIMULATION has 1 sense:
1. manual stimulation of your own genital organ for sexual pleasure
Familiarity information: SELF-STIMULATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Manual stimulation of your own genital organ for sexual pleasure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
self-abuse; self-stimulation
Hypernyms ("self-stimulation" is a kind of...):
masturbation; onanism (manual stimulation of the genital organs (of yourself or another) for sexual pleasure)
Context examples
Organ systems involved in self-stimulation through cellular production of a factor and a specific receptor for it.
(Autocrine Systems, NCI Thesaurus)
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