anorgasmia
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Noun edit
anorgasmia (uncountable)
- (medicine) Failure to achieve orgasm.
- 2012, Allen Lawrence, Laura Edwards, “Self-Help in Gynecological Practice”, in Martha Kirkpatrick, editor, Women’s Sexual Development: Explorations of Inner Space, page 273:
- On the other hand, a woman with a major or recurrent problem (VD, unplanned pregnancies, recurrent vaginal infection, anorgasmia, etc.) needs guidance to find the root of her problem: Has she “mismotivated” herself”? Has she lost her “healthy image” of herself?
- 2018 June 8, anonymous author, “My life in sex: ‘After taking antidepressants, my genitals felt numb’”, in The Guardian[1]:
- I've since discovered this side-effect isn't uncommon and has a name: PSSD (post-SSRI sexual dysfunction). I know men who also suffer with PSSD and struggle with the same genital numbness and anorgasmia, coupled with erectile dysfunction.
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failure to achieve orgasm
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Further reading edit
- “anorgasmia”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Italian edit
Noun edit
anorgasmia f (plural anorgasmie)
- (medicine) anorgasmia (failure to achieve orgasm)
Further reading edit
- anorgasmia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Portuguese edit
Noun edit
anorgasmia f (usually uncountable, plural anorgasmias)
- (medicine) anorgasmia (failure to achieve orgasm)
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Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
anorgasmia f (plural anorgasmias)
- (medicine) anorgasmia (failure to achieve orgasm)
Further reading edit
- “anorgasmia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014