orgasmic
adjUS /oɹˈɡæz.mɪk/
Etymology From Ancient Greek. The historically "correct" form is orgastic. Nouns from Ancient Greek that end in -sm regularly form adjectives ending in -stic: for example, enthusiasm / enthusiastic, sarcasm / sarcastic. By way of counterexample, the ahistorical -mic also appears in the terms protoplasmic and cataclysmic (instead of *protoplastic and *cataclystic).
1
Of or relating to orgasms.
2
Prone to or capable of having orgasms.
- Seemingly every year, another study announces that married women are more orgasmic than single women.2000, Wendy Shalit, A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue, page 171:
- They've helped non-orgasmic women become orgasmic, they've helped orgasmic women become more orgasmic, and they've helped many women experience their first multiple orgasms (we'll talk about that later!).2009, Barbara Keesling, The Good Girl's Guide to Bad Girl Sex, page 41:
1 more example
- The gentler the sensation or touch the more orgasmic I am.2010, Anonymised diarist, in Bettina Arndt, What Men Want in Bed, 2012, page 266
3
Very exciting or stimulating.
- It must be an orgasmic experience to be an astronaut and see the Earth as a little, colourful marble surrounded by blackness.
- Derived terms
- anorgasmic, eargasmic, multiorgasmic, multi-orgasmic, nonorgasmic, orgasmical, orgasmically, postorgasmic, preorgasmic, suborgasmic, unorgasmic
- Related terms
- orgasm