orgasmic

English

Alternative forms

• orgastic

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).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æzmɪk

Adjective

orgasmic (comparative more orgasmic, superlative most orgasmic)

1. (not comparable) Of or relating to orgasms.
2. (comparable) Prone to or capable of having orgasms.
   • 2000, Wendy Shalit, A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue, page 171:

     Seemingly every year, another study announces that married women are more orgasmic than single women.

   • 2009, Barbara Keesling, The Good Girl's Guide to Bad Girl Sex, page 41:

     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!).

   • 2010, Anonymised diarist, in Bettina Arndt, What Men Want in Bed, 2012, page 266:

     The gentler the sensation or touch the more orgasmic I am.

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
• multiorgasmic
• multi-orgasmic
• nonorgasmic
• orgasmical
• postorgasmic
• preorgasmic
• suborgasmic
• unorgasmic

 

Related terms

• orgasm

Translations

of or relating to orgasms

• Albanian: orgazmik
• Catalan: orgàsmic (ca)
• Danish: orgastisk
• Dutch: orgastisch (nl)
• Esperanto: orgasma
• Finnish: orgastinen
• French: orgasmique (fr), orgastique (fr), jouissif (fr)
• Galician: orgástico (gl)
• German: orgasmisch, orgastisch
• Greek: οργασμικός (el) (orgasmikós)
• Hungarian: orgazmikus (hu)
• Italian: orgasmico
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: orgastisk

  Nynorsk: orgastisk

• Portuguese: orgástico, orgásmico
• Romanian: orgasmic, orgastic
• Russian: оргазменный (ru) (orgazmennyj), оргастический (ru) (orgastičeskij), оргазми́ческий (orgazmíčeskij)
• Slovene: orgazmičen
• Spanish: orgásmico (es)
• Swedish: orgasmisk, orgastisk
• Volapük: sömitamapünik
• Yiddish: אָרגאַסמיק (orgasmik)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French orgasmique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [orˈɡasmik]

Adjective

orgasmic m or n (feminine singular orgasmică, masculine plural orgasmici, feminine and neuter plural orgasmice)

1. orgasmic

   Synonym: orgastic

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	orgasmic		orgasmică		orgasmici	orgasmice
	definite	orgasmicul		orgasmica		orgasmicii	orgasmicele
genitive- dative	indefinite	orgasmic		orgasmice		orgasmici	orgasmice
	definite	orgasmicului		orgasmicei		orgasmicelor	orgasmicilor

Related terms

• orgasm