/anorgasmic-meaning

/anorgasmic-meaning-etymology

-) Adjective.

-) Accent: anorgasmic.

-) Etymology: from the word “anorgasmia”, which is analysed in an- (privative prefix) + “orgasm” and -ia (suffix). It is identical with Spanish anorgasmico, Italian anorgasmico and French anorgasmique.

-) It is dated from 1900.  

-) 1. (Of a person) who does not orgasm for any cause (for sickness, dysfunction, inability, inhibition, bigotry, etc.)

-) Antonym: orgasmic.

… some women are totally anorgasmic; others are orgasmic during copulation, and others show frequent copulatory orgasm.

P. Slater… Stress… 1998

I was asexual and anorgasmic until I was thirty-two years old. Then I discovered my sexuality, my identity as an intersexed person, and I learned how to become orgasmic.

S. Preves… Intersex… 2003

-) 2. (Of a thing) characterized by anorgasmia.

-) Antonym: orgasmic.

Ejaculation is taken as external proof that a man has experienced an orgasm, despite evidence that men can ejaculate without orgasm, technically known as anorgasmic ejaculation.

L. Moore… Sperm Counts… 2007

-) English words derived from orgasm: orgasmic, orgastic, anorgasmia, orgasm (verb), orgasmically.