Definition of Titillating

1. Adjective. Pleasantly and superficially exciting.

Similar to: Exciting

2. Adjective. Giving sexual pleasure; sexually arousing.
Exact synonyms: Erotic
Similar to: Sexy
Derivative terms: Eros, Eros

3. Adjective. Exciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements.
Exact synonyms: Tickling, Tingling
Similar to: Exciting

Definition of Titillating

1. Verb. (present participle of titillate) ¹

2. Adjective. Pleasantly and sensually exciting. ¹

3. Adjective. Arousing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Titillating

1. titillate [v] - See also: titillate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Titillating

tithonias
tithonic
tithonicity
tithonographic
tithonometer
tithonometers
tithymal
tithymals
titi
titi family
titi monkey
titians
titillate
titillated
titillates
titillating (current term)
titillatingly
titillations
titillative
titin
titipounamu
titis
titivate
titivated
titivates
titivating
titivation
titivations
titlark

Literary usage of Titillating

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

1. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"174 The pungent grains of titillating d, RL v. 84 And all those tresses shall be laid in d. RL v. 148 -See ! strew* d with learned i/, her night-cap on S. ..."

2. The Concordance Repertory of the More Characteristic Symptoms of the Materia by William D. Gentry (1891)
"D. titillating constant cough, with feeling in throat and mouth as if burnt. Laur. ... OpL D., titillating cough, with tickling in throat at night. Coloc. ..."

3. American Observer Medical Monthly (1881)
"Dry titillating cough, with stitches in the chest and oppressed breathing; ... Kafka says: "We have seen a very violent, acute titillating cough cured very ..."

4. Therapeutics of Tuberculosis: Or Pulmonary Consumption by William H. Burt (1876)
"Dry, teasing, titillating cough, day and night, but especially at night; cough of a cerebral origin, especially fright; face swollen and purple ..."

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