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Meaning of "titillative" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TITILLATIVE

titillative  [ˈtɪtɪˌleɪtɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TITILLATIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Titillative is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES TITILLATIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

titillative

Tickling

Tickling is the act of touching a part of the body so as to cause involuntary twitching movements and/or laughter. The word "tickle" evolved from the Middle English tikelen, perhaps frequentative of ticken, to touch lightly. The idiom tickled pink means to be pleased or delighted. In 1897, psychologists G. Stanley Hall and Arthur Allin described a "tickle" as two different types of phenomena. One type is caused by very light movement across the skin. This type of tickle, called a knismesis, generally does not produce laughter and is sometimes accompanied by an itching sensation. Another type of tickle is the laughter-inducing "heavy" tickle, produced by repeatedly applying pressure to "ticklish" areas, and is known as gargalesis. Such sensations can be pleasurable or exciting, but are sometimes considered highly unpleasant, particularly in the case of relentless heavy tickling. The question as to why a person could not tickle him/herself was raised by the Greek philosopher Aristotle. Francis Bacon and Charles Darwin believed that humorous laughter requires a "light" frame of mind.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TITILLATIVE


collative
kɒˈleɪtɪv
contemplative
ˈkɒntɛmˌpleɪtɪv
creative
kriːˈeɪtɪv
dilative
daɪˈleɪtɪv
gesticulative
dʒɛsˈtɪkjʊleɪtɪv
illative
ɪˈleɪtɪv
inflative
ɪnˈfleɪtɪv
innovative
ˈɪnəˌveɪtɪv
isolative
ˈaɪsəˌleɪtɪv
modulative
ˈmɒdjʊˌleɪtɪv
mutilative
ˈmjuːtɪˌleɪtɪv
native
ˈneɪtɪv
nomenclative
ˈnəʊmənˌkleɪtɪv
oppilative
ˈɒpɪˌleɪtɪv
oscillative
ˈɒsɪˌleɪtɪv
percolative
ˈpɜːkəˌleɪtɪv
prolative
prəʊˈleɪtɪv
revelative
ˈrevəˌleɪtɪv
translative
trænsˈleɪtɪv
ventilative
ˈvɛntɪˌleɪtɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TITILLATIVE

titi
Titian
Titian red
Titianesque
Titicaca
titillate
titillating
titillatingly
titillation
titillator
titipounamu
titivate
titivation
titivator
titlark
title
title deed
title fight
title page

WORDS THAT END LIKE TITILLATIVE

active
administrative
alternative
collaborative
comparative
conservative
cooperative
cumulative
decorative
derivative
in the negative
informative
initiative
legislative
narrative
negative
operative
qualitative
quantitative
relative
representative

Synonyms and antonyms of titillative in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «titillative» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TITILLATIVE

Find out the translation of titillative to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of titillative from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «titillative» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

titillative
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

titillative
570 millions of speakers

English

titillative
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

titillative
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

titillative
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

titillative
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

titillative
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

titillative
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

titillative
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Titillative
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

titillative
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

titillative
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

titillative
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Titillative
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

titillative
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

titillative
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उपशामक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

titillative
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

titillative
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

titillative
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

titillative
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

titillative
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

titillative
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

titillative
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

titillative
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

titillative
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of titillative

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TITILLATIVE»

The term «titillative» is normally little used and occupies the 130.359 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TITILLATIVE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about titillative

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TITILLATIVE»

Discover the use of titillative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to titillative and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous
The author, obviously a cleric, also stresses that these beings are not random but part of a divine plan, for “God has made nothing in vain.” The titillative aspect of the monstrous races is also brought out, for by comparison to these beings, “God  ...
Asa Simon Mittman, Peter J. Dendle, 2013
2
The Legacy of Boadicea: Gender and Nation in Early Modern ...
Tudor-Stuatt nation, it expresses the titillative simulraneiry of difference and resemblance necessaty to nationhood; the volatile contours of female figuraliry draw the permeable borders of the domestic" (1996: 29). 8 For Drayton's thitry- yeat ...
Jodi Mikalachki, 2014
3
Faulkner and Postmodernism
On the whole, however, I was more intrigued by another anthology series just then appearing on Dad's shelves, called The Ribald Reader: pretty spicy stuff by my then standards, and illustrated with titillative line drawings. What I only dimly ...
John N. Duvall, Ann J. Abadie, 2002
4
Four Restoration Libertine Plays
Indeed, his own comedy The Amorous Widow, an adaptation from Moliére, showcases what Robert D. Hume calls 'titillative sex'.31 Then too professional dramatists by 1670 increasingly vied with the gentlemen writers who had domin — ...
Deborah Payne Fisk, 2005
5
Imago
... suppressing a gasp, intent on giving nothing away. "Your first shower. Can I stand here?" His head hung low as he pulled at his ear pretending he was seeing her for the first time — her titillative bareness — but his eyes gave him away.
Francesca Rendle-Short, 1996
6
Common Sense, Or, The Englishman's Journal
I must not here omit one Publick Tickler of great Eminency, and whose Titillative Faculty must be allowed to be singly consined to the Ear, I mean the great Signer Farineili, to whom such Crowds resort, for the Extasy he administers to them ...
Mr. Molloy (Charles), William King, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, 1738
7
Schirmer's Complete Rhyming Dictionary
substantive subversive successive suggestive superlative supersensitive supportive suppositive suppressive suspensive talkative tentative titillative tolerative transgressive transitive translative transmissive ulcerative unassertive unattractive ...
Paul Zollo, 2010
8
The gentleman's magazine
The Bar has at present few Proficient, of this Sort, the Pulpit none, the Ladder alone seems not to decline. I must not omit one Publick Tickler of great Eminency, whose Titillative Faculty roust be allow 'd to be singly confin'd to the Ear, I mean ...
‎1736
9
The Beauties of Literature: Consisting of Classic Selections ...
I must not here omit one public tickler of great eminency, and whose titillative faculty must be allowed to be singly confined to the ear, I mean the great Signior Farinelli, to whom such crowds resort, for the ecstacy he administers to them through ...
Alfred Howard, 1829
10
A Reader's Guide to William Faulkner: The Novels
(Faulkner did occasionally use sex in his novels for sensational purposes and sometimes, as here, for its titillative effects.) Linda offers herself to Gavin when he asks her to tear up her Communist card and leave Jefferson. He refuses her as he ...
Edmond Loris Volpe, 2003

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« EDUCALINGO. Titillative [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/titillative>. May 2024 ».
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