onanism

Other forms of onanism

plural

onanisms·

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 onanism

What does onanism mean?

onanism means "manual stimulation of the genital organs (of yourself or another) for sexual pleasure". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in onanism?

onanism has 3 syllables: o-na-nism. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for onanism?

Close synonyms include masturbation, coitus interruptus, withdrawal method, withdrawal, pulling out. 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 onanism a common word?

onanism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.