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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 pleasureplay

  Familiarity information: SELF-STIMULATION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SELF-STIMULATION (noun)


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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