masturbation

1. 1.

   manual stimulation of the genital organs (of yourself or another) for sexual pleasure

   Synonymsonanism

   Broaderautoeroticism

   Narrowerself-stimulationfrottagejacking off

Other forms of masturbation

plural

masturbations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about masturbation

What does masturbation mean?

masturbation means "manual stimulation of the genital organs (of yourself or another) for sexual pleasure".

How many syllables are in masturbation?

masturbation has 4 syllables: mas-tur-ba-tion. The stress falls on "ba". In IPA it is /ˌmæstɚˈbeɪʃən/.

What is another word for masturbation?

Close synonyms include onanism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is masturbation a common word?

masturbation is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with masturbation?

5 words rhyme with masturbation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.