Definition of Nocturnal emission

1. Noun. Ejaculation during sleep (usually during a dream).

Group relationships: Wet Dream
Generic synonyms: Ejaculation

Definition of Nocturnal emission

1. Noun. An ejaculation or orgasm while asleep, often accompanied by an erotic dream. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nocturnal Emission

noctuas
noctuid
noctuid moth
noctuids
noctule
noctules
noctuoid
nocturia
nocturn
nocturnal
nocturnal amblyopia
nocturnal deliria
nocturnal delirium
nocturnal diarrhoea
nocturnal dyspnea
nocturnal emissions
nocturnal enuresis
nocturnal epilepsy
nocturnal myoclonus
nocturnal penile tumescence
nocturnal periodicity
nocturnal vertigo
nocturnalist
nocturnalists
nocturnality
nocturnally
nocturne
nocturnelike
nocturnes

Literary usage of Nocturnal emission

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Irrigation treatment of gonorrhœa: Its Local Complications and Sequelæ by Ferdinand Charles Valentine (1900)
"At opportune moments (coitus or nocturnal emission) the spermatozoa are thrown out of the vesicles through the ejaculatory duct, which perforates the ..."

2. The Muhammadan Law: Being a Digest of the Law Applicable Especially to the by Shama Churun Sircar (1873)
"The puberty of a boy is established by his becoming subject to nocturnal emission, his impregnating a woman, or emitting in the act of coition; ..."

3. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of by Timothy Field Allen (1879)
"Emissions becoming more infrequent, and afterwards ceasing entirely,12.—Nocturnal emission, with distressing pain in the orifice of the urethra, ..."

4. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English: Or, Medicine by Ray Vaughn Pierce (1918)
"The emissions were arrested at once, and I have not had a single unnatural discharge since, except once when I experienced a slight nocturnal emission, ..."

5. Health and Disease: Their Determining Factors by Roger Irving Lee (1917)
"As a matter of fact the nocturnal emission is simply the more or less automatic relief of the overfilled sex organs. No definite interval can be fixed for ..."

6. Materia Medica Pura by Samuel Hahnemann, Robert Ellis Dudgeon (1880)
"nocturnal emission of semen with voluptuous dreams. [Lr.] 480. nocturnal emission of semen without voluptuous dreams, followed by long-continued erection of ..."

7. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the testis, and of the spermatic by Thomas Blizard Curling (1878)
"The semen from a nocturnal emission was destitute of spermatozoa. An Austrian gentleman, aged thirty, short in stature, but stout in build, consulted me in ..."

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